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Published on 10/02/2026
The study of Gallo-Roman curse tablets discovered in Orléans continues at the PSICHÉ (...)
After conducting a first series of highly conclusive test measurements in October 2024 on the PSICHE beamline , two archaeologists from the Archaeology Department of the City of Orléans returned in (...)
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Published on 28/01/2026
World-first at SOLEIL: 3D X-ray imaging of pressurized hydrogen-induced damage in steel (...)
Researchers from the Centre des Matériaux – Mines Paris (PSL) have achieved a world-first at the SOLEIL synchrotron: real-time 3D X-ray imaging of steel deformation and fracture under pressurized (...)
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Published on 10/12/2025
Portrait of Edwige Otero - "Research, a collective adventure"
Through a series of portraits, SOLEIL sets out to meet the people who make the synchrotron what it is. For this sixth episode, Edwige Otero, a scientist on DEIMOS—one of SOLEIL’s 29 beamlines—agreed (...)
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