ESRF hosts EMBO Master Class 2013

From 10-14 June, the ESRF hosted the tenth edition of the EMBO practical course on anomalous scattering in macromolecular crystallography. The course gave students the opportunity to benefit from the  … (17-06-2013) Read More…

Oldest primate fossil rewrites evolutionary break in human lineage

The study of the world’s oldest early primate skeleton has brought light to a pivotal event in primate and human evolution: that of the branch split that led to monkeys, apes and humans (anthropoids  … (05-06-2013) Read More…

10th anniversary celebrations for Grenoble's Partnership for Structural Biology (PSB)

On 4th June more than 150 specialists from all across Europe gathered in Grenoble to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Partnership for Structural Biology. The day was centred around talks by prest  … (04-06-2013) Read More…

Room temperature magnetic semiconductor for spintronics

Materials for spintronic applications need to have both magnetic and semiconducting properties. But an intrinsic semiconductor that is magnetic at room temperature has yet to be found. The europium ch  … (17-06-2013) Read More…

Direct observation of the self-assembly of surfactant micelles

Surface active agents or surfactants are ubiquitous in consumer products as important ingredients performing as detergents, solubilisers, emulsifiers, etc. Their self-assembly into micelles occurs on  … (28-05-2013) Read More…

Phonon anomalies and the Verwey transition in magnetite

The Verwey transition in magnetite is one of the longest unsolved problems of solid state physics, where the otherwise excellent theories fail to capture the collective nature of the first-order phase  … (15-05-2013) Read More…