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Dec. 17, 2019 With close of research reactors, landscape is shifting for Europe’s world-leading neutron science community

Three neutron science research reactors in Europe have ceased operations in 2019. LENS and ENSA warn of a “neutron gap” that could impact scientific research

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Nov. 29, 2019 Helmut Schober is made Doctor Honoris Causa of the University Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

From left to right Prof. Konstantin Protassov, Prof. Helmut Schober and Prof. Patrick Levy, the UGA President On 26 November, the Director of the ILL, Helmut Schober, was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, an honorary title awarded to “non-French personalit…

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Aug. 7, 2019 Experimental demonstration of direct path state characterisation by measuring weak values in a matter-wave interferometer.

schematic illustration of the interferometric setup A letter published in Physical Review Letters, by a group of scientists of the Atominstitut - Institute of Atomic & Subatomic Physics of TU Wien (Austria), after an experiment on S18 at ILL. Nuclear spin tomo…

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Aug. 7, 2019 ThALES and the application of three-axis low energy spectroscopy in quantum physics research.

ThALES. Photo: R. Cubitt, ILL Electrons and magnetismIn modern physics of the past century, understanding the electronic properties and interactions between electrons inside matter has been a major challenge. Electrons are responsible for the chemical link between …

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July 16, 2019 Newly discovered multiferroic nano clusters might help to enable the next generation of processor and memory devices

Newly discovered multiferroic nano-clusters might help to enable the next generation of processor and memory devices 24.06.2016A team of scientists from England, Germany and France recently discovered novel so-called multiferroic clusters. Results were published as a featured article in the journa…

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July 16, 2019 Neutrons enable fine-tuning of pesticides to boost crop yields and reduce environmental impact.

The wax surface on the leaves of plants, such as barley and wheat crops, acts as a protective barrier against environmental attacks including pests, and water and nutrient loss. The wax surface is also involved in the uptake and transportation of water and nutrients across the plant surface for pl…

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June 27, 2019 Closing the last gap for the Periodic Table’s 150th birthday

Pulsed Ti:sapphire laser setup used for the determination of the ionization potential of promethium at Mainz University. 26 June 2019Timely for the “International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements” which celebrates the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's…

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March 26, 2019 Neutron experiments reveal proteins which can inhibit amyloid plaque formation

New clues about the molecular nature of Alzheimer’s disease

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March 21, 2019 Neutrons paint atomic portrait of prototypical cell signaling enzyme—protein kinase A

Direct observations of the structure and catalytic mechanism of a prototypical kinase enzyme will provide researchers and drug developers with significantly enhanced abilities to understand and treat fatal diseases and neurological disorders

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Dec. 18, 2018 Neutrons unlock the secrets of limoncello

If you’re looking for a liquid to study with neutron scattering, lemon liqueur probably isn’t your first thought. But, for Dr. Leonardo Chiappisi, a researcher at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL, France) and the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin), it was an obvious choice. “I’m originally …

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Dec. 17, 2018 Making leaps and jumps in high pressure small-angle neutron scattering techniques

“The phase transition from swollen chains to polymer mesoglobules as induced by millisecond pressure jumps, investigated with kinetic small-angle neutron scattering.Reprinted with permission from ACS Macro Lett. 2018, 7, 10, 1155. Copyright 2018 American Chemical Society.” …

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Dec. 3, 2018 H2020 European project PaNOSC officially started to contribute making FAIR data a reality

1 December 2018Large-scale research infrastructures produce huge amounts of scientific data on a daily basis. This poses storage and (re)usability challenges, which are best addressed by the “FAIR” paradigm: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable. Data policies and technologies need to …

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