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Today, the total data storage capacity in the world is between 10 and 50 zettabytes (10 21), and this value could double every two years. Research into new materials that would enable higher data (...)

Created 10 years ago by the University of Göttingen in Germany, "Physics in advent" aims to interest in physics, in a playful way, a public between 11 and 18 years old. This year, one of the prizes (...)

The year 2022 has been declared the "International Year of Glass" by the United Nations General Assembly. To celebrate this, the artist Hernán Gabriel Pais - who is also a member of the SOLEIL’s teams (...)

A novel database has been created in a concerted scientific approach. Researchers from Poland, France and the United States have joined efforts to collect and standardize Circular Dichroism (CD) (...)

The optimal assembly of identical objects is a question of geometry that has fascinated scientists since antiquity. Nowadays, it can be revisited in the science of nanomaterials, which allows the (...)

Corentin Chatelier defended his thesis, entitled "On the surface structures and catalytic properties of aluminum-based intermetallics" on December 15, 2020. His work, carried out on the SIXS beamline (...)

Rings are one of the primary ways molecules build three-dimensional structures. Their properties and dynamics are therefore of central importance across many chemical fields. Characterizing the (...)

For this 6th and last episode of our series, we follow Julie during the final weeks of her PhD: the writing of her thesis, the rehearsals, and then the great day of the oral defense. A lot of emotion (...)

From Friday the 7th until Sunday the 9 th of October, SOLEIL will take part, as every year, in the Science Fair to introduce SOLEIL and do some science through fun workshops to the lay audience!

SVOM (Space based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) is a Sino-French space mission to be launched in 2023 to observe gamma-ray bursts. The on-board Microchannel X-Ray Telescope (MXT) (...)

The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission (JAXA) has brought back samples from the carbonaceous primitive asteroid Ryugu. Thanks to the analyses of these samples by an international group led by Prof. Tomoki (...)

To date, and over several successive years, the quality of its operation (beam availability, mean time between failures, mean time to recover) places SOLEIL in the top 3 synchrotrons in the world 1 (...)