The first ever international student summer programme being jointly hosted by the European Synchrotron (the ESRF) and the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) is in full swing. 18 students from countries all over Europe are at the European Photon and...

The ESRF Council has expressed unanimous support for the implementation of the second phase of the ESRF Upgrade Programme and approved the related Technical Design Report. Over the next six years, the ESRF plans to bring into operation a new...

The Russian Federation has sealed its membership to the European Synchrotron, the ESRF today (23 June 2014). A delegation from Russia took part in a ceremony at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility to officially mark the accession of...

Hard X-rays could be used as a novel direct-writing, photoresist-free lithographic process with potential nanometric resolution and 3D capability, thus overcoming the current limitations in the fabrication of miniaturised devices. A team of...

Soft matter systems offer the possibility to study new phase and/or state transitions as they are characterised by unconventional phase diagrams encompassing fluid, gel and glassy states. Researchers from the Italian CNR, in collaboration with...

The crystal structure of the tertiary complex of a phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase with a small guanosine triphosphatase and its effector provides insight into processes that require the remodelling and expansion of phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate...