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Publié le 20/02/2024

Video - Flax from past to present

What do mummy strips and the hull of a boat have in common? Both contain flax fibres! Much appreciated by the Egyptians, this plant material with its many qualities is now being studied with a view...

Publié le 13/02/2024

New exceptionally preserved fossils discovered in the south of France characterized using...

A new fossil bed has been uncovered in the French department of Hérault through the perseverance of two ardent amateur palaeontologists. The couple’s discoveries were studied by scientists from teams...

Publié le 08/01/2024

Remediation of copper-laden water using hemp: coupling two synchrotron analysis...

There is growing interest in the use of lignocellulosic materials, such as hemp, as adsorbents to recover copper from industrial waters. While hemp is known to be chemically efficient for such an...

Publié le 22/12/2023

Video - A talisman with plenty of character(s)

3.5 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter... This small talisman, which may soon join the collections of the Musée des Écritures d'Ampus in the Haut-Var county of France, is very mysterious, and above all,...

Publié le 11/12/2023

Unraveling the otolith through X-ray nanofluorescence at the NANOSCOPIUM beamline

Otoliths are mineral structures found in the inner ear of vertebrates. In teleost* fish, they continuously form throughout the animal's life, preserving a chronological record of the chemical and...

Publié le 05/12/2023

Induced chirality onto an achiral molecule also exists in Photoelectron Circular...

Circular Dichroism measurements have already demonstrated that an achiral⁽¹⁾ molecule can acquire a chiral⁽¹⁾ spectroscopic signature when interacting with a chiral environment...

Publié le 23/11/2023

Haüy-Lacroix Prize 2023 awarded to Rémy Pierru, by the Société Française de Minéralogie...

Rémy Pierru's thesis, entitled " Mantle melting at high pressure and high temperature: application to early Earth dynamics”, set out to reproduce experimentally the conditions under which the Earth’s...

Publié le 07/11/2023

Titan's atmosphere - methane signatures in the infrared range studied on AILES...

Methane is a particularly interesting molecule for studying (exo-) planetary atmospheres, especially that of Saturn's moon Titan, which has a thick atmosphere. Detailed analysis of the radiation...

Publié le 31/10/2023

Towards therapeutic strategies against oncological diseases – monitoring nanoscale...

Temperature plays a critical role in regulating body mechanisms. Local temperature increments above 42 °C are shown to kill cancer cells in tumorous tissue, leading to the development of nanoparticle...