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Today, physicists can describe our world with ever increasing precision: The Standard Model of particle physics successfully describes all observation concerning three out of four fundamental interactions - the electromagnetic, the weak and the strong interaction. Gravitation, the fourth known interaction, is fully explained by General Relativity. The application of General Relativity to the enti…

A step closer to realising the potential of superconductivity through multidisciplinary international collaboration ThALES, the Three Axis instrument for Low Energy Spectrometry. Photo: Ecliptique, L. Thion Climate change and the energy crisis have highlighted the …

An international research team has succeeded in significantly narrowing the scope for the existence of dark matter, with the use of a precision experiment developed at the University of Bern, and carried out at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL).

Internationally, researchers are hunting for ways to transport information via magnetic waves instead of electronsScientists have now discovered a circular wave motion in skyrmions, bringing us closer to these new technologiesMnSi, initially from cosmic dust, was studied as the closest model for t…

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Medical isotope collection at CERN MEDICIS; ©CERN 2018-2021 Nuclear therapy and molecular imaging, which are widely used in hospitals for promising new medical procedures, can drastically improve outcomes for many medical conditions, making it possible to treat dis…

Spin correlations for classical versus quantum spin ice in magnetic pyrochlores. Spin correlations are directly measurable by neutron scattering. Images: O. Benton, O. Sikora, N. Shannon PRB 86(2012)075154. Quantum spin ice is an appealing proposal of a quantum sp…

Neutron reflectometry reveals SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces lipid stripping from cell membrane, leading to a greater understanding of SARS-CoV-2 infection mechanisms and potential therapeutics. 22 July 2021Scientists at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), in colla…

An international team, including ILL scientists, have used neutron scattering to study the behaviour of dense supercritical methane. Their results could help to better model the interiors of methane-rich outer planets of our solar system.“Methane is one of the most abundant molecules in the Univer…

August 2020Supercapacitors are up-and-coming, energy storage devices, often used to store energy from renewable energy sources like wind turbines where power is intermittent. They combine the best of batteries and traditional capacitors – like batteries, they are able to store lots of energy but a…

On 15th July Switzerland’s Scientific Membership of the ILL was officially renewed for another 5 years.

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…