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Published on 09.14.2018

Water, air… clean fuels

Over 40 billion tons of CO₂are emitted every year due to human activities. What can we do with this waste? In Nature, plants capture CO₂and transform it into plant material (biomass) thanks to solar energy. It’s photosynthesis. At the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux (Orsay), the scientific team called « artificial photosynthesis » is inspired by...

Published on 01.31.2018

Legacy phosphorus

From the 1950s, the Seine, like all rivers in France, suffered the consequences of the growth of cities and agriculture intensification. Massive quantities of chemical fertilizer and wastewater...

Published on 11.10.2017

Shedding light on tumor cells

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...

Published on 10.09.2017

Hair in the spotlight

Enhance the understanding of the chemical composition and the structure of tissues such as hair, skin, nails, better characterize the products themselves (shampooes, creams, their long-term stability...

Published on 08.01.2016

Drought means stress

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...

Published on 06.01.2016

Bronze beauty is only skin deep

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. They came at SOLEIL, on...

Des bactéries dangereuses

Published on 02.18.2016

Dangerous bacteria

To fight against leptospirosa, scientists study the 3D shape of one these bacteria’s proteins. Molecular crystals and X-rays on PROXIMA1 beamline.

Published on 10.01.2015

When lightning gets into a ball

Great balls of lightning by SynchrotronSOLEIL A study led at the synchrotron facility SOLEIL unravelled (part) of the mystery of ball lighting.

Published on 06.30.2014

Crystallography throughout the ages

On 12th June 2014, Sylvain Ravy, head of CRISTAL beamline at SOLEIL gave a conference at the University of Caen entitled “How did Fourier transform Crystallography”. Let’s go back on a fascinating...

Published on 10.13.2013

Peak activity on the MARS beamline

Since September 16th, 2013, SOLEIL has been authorized by the French Nuclear Safety Authority to study samples on the MARS beamline with radioactivity above exempt concentration limits. We are...

Published on 02.01.2013

Liver transplants

SOLEIL synchrotron offers a safer method of deciding in a few minutes if a donor liver can be transplanted

Published on 09.01.2011

The plant that loved heavy metals

Arabidopsis halleri is a plant whose surprising characteristic is to grow in soil contaminated with heavy metals, and even to store the metals in its leaves. But, in exactly what parts of the...