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Cyanobacteria are abundant bacteria in many continental and marine environments. 2.3 billion years ago they "invented" oxygenic photosynthesis process, this essential reaction that uses light energy (...)

At 6000 years old, this copper amulet is the earliest lost-wax cast object known. Now, researchers have finally discovered how it was made, using a novel UV-visible photoluminescence spectral imaging (...)

Through use of the PROXIMA-1 and PROXIMA-2A beamlines, researchers of the Ecole Polytechnique (CNRS, Palaiseau) and IGBMC (CNRS, INSERM and Strasbourg University) have determined the structure of a (...)

A reaction chamber was coupled to a photoionization aerosol time-of flight mass spectrometer on the DESIRS beamline for on-line analysis of organic and inorganic-organic mixed aerosols using (...)

Setups build to carry out high-pressure spectroscopy experiments –infrared (IR), TeraHertz (THz) or Raman– have been presented over the past years, some of them combining high pressure and low (...)

Researchers from MONARIS, LPS laboratory and SOLEIL succeeded in crystallizing gold colloidal crystals made of poly- or single-nanocrystals, and their structures have been revealed using the bio (...)

If the traditional domain of excellence of synchrotron radiation is that of X-rays, SOLEIL also represents a currently irreplaceable broad band source for high resolution infrared (IR) spectroscopy (...)

A research work on generation of natural crystals of proteins by a cockroach viviparous species has been partly investigated on the PROXIMA-1 beamline.

Scanning hard X-ray imaging allows simultaneous acquisition of multimodal information, i.e. of images in which each pixel contains several types of data. The output is, for instance, a map of the (...)

In a storage ring, an electron beam interacts with the vacuum chamber, generating wake fields that act back on the beam itself. The main effect of these fields is to limit the stored current because (...)

X-ray free electron laser reveals radiosensitizing effects at molecular level. While the effect of radiosensitizing molecules in radiation-based cancer therapies has been known for a long time, the (...)

Software simulating oil absorption has been developed and tested. It reveals the dynamics of oil penetration into food according to the level of damage in the tissues and cooling conditions (see also (...)