Spotlight on Science

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10-12-2010

X-ray Bragg holography: A 3D look inside nanostructures

23-11-2010

Snapshots of a photosynthetic reaction centre

15-11-2010

How a new class of antibiotic inhibits bacterial type IIA toposiomerases

28-10-2010

Cell guidance mechanisms revealed at atomic-level resolution

19-10-2010

Strong K-edge magnetic circular dichroism observed in photon-in/photon-out spectroscopy

24-09-2010

Fusion reactor pebble bed studied by X-ray tomography

15-09-2010

New phases in supercritical fluids: the Widom line as crossover between liquid-like and gas-like behaviour

06-09-2010

Record brilliance at the ESRF achieved thanks to ultra small vertical emittance

16-08-2010

Better cartilage imaging by phase-contrast computed tomography

06-08-2010

Exploring the pores in a heavy metal: the 3D microstructure of coatings for nuclear fusion reactors is revealed by high-resolution synchrotron microtomography

29-06-2010

Roughness as a motor for reaction oscillations

29-06-2010

Time-resolved Hard X-ray diffraction (HXRD) with integral infrared spectroscopy: a new experiment to illuminate fundamental properties of reactive nanoparticulate materials

25-06-2010

An original Cu(I)-coordination shell in a small bacterial metalloprotein identified by XAS and NMR spectroscopy

16-06-2010

The deepest phase transition in the Earth's mantle

31-05-2010

Innovative resistive memories studied by hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES)

12-05-2010

Multi quantum well electroabsorption-modulated laser characterised by hard X-ray microprobe

23-04-2010

The transition state of enzyme phosphoryl transfer revealed by magnesium triflouride

06-04-2010

A snapshot of bacterial signalling

30-03-2010

Biaxial liquid crystals found in colloidal dispersions

04-03-2010

Anomalous properties of the acoustic excitations in glasses on the mesoscopic length-scale