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A new partnership will unite expertise, infrastructure and data across borders to accelerate diagnosis, treatment and ultimately prevention of major diseases – starting with women’s health, infectious (...)

The new edition of our Highlights brings together 41 standout achievements selected from the approximately 700 articles published in 2025, resulting from the research undertaken both on SOLEIL's (...)

A collaborative team of micropaleontologists, geochemists, and physicists from ISTerre (CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes), CEREGE, Institut Néel, SOLEIL, and Rutgers University provides new insights (...)

A collaborative study between Aix-Marseille Université, SOLEIL, ESRF and ALBA synchrotrons, recently published in npj Antimicrobials and Resistance , provides new insight into the mechanism of action (...)

Scientists from ISMO, ICP and ISM used the CERISES instrument at the DESIRS beamline at SOLEIL to investigate how cyclopentadiene (C₅H₆)— a key building block of complex carbon and aromatic molecules (...)

Many biological and bio-active molecules, like pharmaceuticals, fragrances exist in two distinct mirrored forms, the enantiomers of a so-called chiral species. While identical in chemical and physical (...)

An international team including scientists from the IPANEMA Institute and the PUMA beamline has revealed that a 300-million-year-old fossil, previously thought to be the oldest known octopus, is in (...)

Warning: this event will only be held in French On Friday, May 29, 2026, for the 13th edition of SOLEIL de Minuit, the synchrotron SOLEIL will open its doors for night tours of its facilities, from 6 (...)

Second Call Now Open – Apply by 15 July 2026

Through a series of portraits, Synchrotron SOLEIL meets the men and women who bring the synchrotron to life. For this seventh episode, Damien Jeangérard, control room operator, agreed to take part (...)

2D materials are excellent candidates for light emission in LED-type components. Furthermore, combining several of these materials with different properties (metal, insulator, semiconductor) (...)

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