VIDEOS

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 to (...)

At the synchrotron SOLEIL, researchers come to study a material with astonishing properties: a powder, each grain of which is made up of molecules organized in the form of crystals which, at the (...)

At SOLEIL, research on the little mysterious talisman continues.

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, very (...)

Water and electricity to produce hydrogen: this is the electrolysis of water, a reaction that many high school students have performed during chemistry practicals. A seemingly simple reaction, but (...)

The Synchrotron SOLEIL has received funding within the France Relance plan to modernize its chilled water production station. To learn more, this video, filmed during the summer of 2022 when the new (...)

The 6th and last episode of our series "Julie's thesis"!

What do SOLEIL and the cinema have in common? As the third part of the Jurassic World film series is released in cinemas, we invite you to go back to the origins of the saga through research carried (...)

The fifth episode of our series "Julie's thesis"!

In the summer of 2021, a few milligrams of dust grains collected on the asteroid Ryugu more than 340 million kilometers from Earth, as part of the Japanese space mission Hayabusa-2, could be analyzed (...)

The fourth episode of our series "Julis's PhD thesis"!

The third episode of our series "Julie's PhD thesis"!