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How does an experiment at a synchrotron unfold? What do the samples that scientists study there look like? What information do they obtain on a beamline? Since 2008, to make the answers to these (...)

In a series of portraits, SOLEIL goes out to meet those who make the synchrotron what it is. For this third episode, Jean Susini, SOLEIL's new Director General, agreed to take part. In an interview (...)

In 2014, at the CRISTAL beamline of SOLEIL, researchers came to study a material with astonishing properties: a powder, each grain of which is made up of molecules organized in the form of crystals (...)

We invite you to go back to the origins of the Jurassic Park saga through research carried out at Synchrotron SOLEIL! The exceptional preservation of inclusions in amber (insects, plants, etc.) has (...)

Over 40 billion tons of CO 2 are emitted every year due to human activities. What can we do with this waste? In Nature, plants capture CO 2 and transform it into plant material (biomass) thanks to (...)

How can a neurosurgeon be sure that he removed the totality of the tumour from his patient's brain, while preserving healthy neighbouring tissues ? To help the practitioner, researchers and physicians (...)

An international team of French, Italian and Slovenian scientists have deciced to develop and new, more resistant king of coating for the bronze statues of our urban property. In 2016 they came at (...)

"Moon milk" is a strange substance that covers the walls of some prehistoric caves, sometimes erasing parietal works. What is it made of ? A research was carried out on the infrared beamline SMIS in (...)

Trees are suffering from global warming. Due to droughts that are too intense and too frequent, entire forest massifs are dying. Many coniferous trees could be under the spotlight. To identify the (...)

Prussian blue has been prized by artists since the 18th century. Today, scientists are taking a keen interest in this pigment by studying what happens when some of its iron atoms are replaced by (...)

Following his appointment in December 2023, Jean Susini took office as Director General of the SOLEIL Synchrotron on September 1, 2024, for a five-year term.

During the Workshop on Metrology for X-ray Optics, Mirror Design and Fabrication IWXM 2024, hosted by the Helmholtz Zentrum in Berlin, our colleague François Polack was awarded the 5 th Sostero Award.