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30-09-2026

Early fossil reveals fish-like and reptile-like...

Study uncovers hidden gills and fish-like teeth in 345-million-year-old fossil using the ESRF. The result challenges long-held ideas about the origins of reptiles and life on land....

28-09-2026

Unveiling the structure of ‘living electronics’ produced by bacteria

21-09-2026

New iron oxyhydroxides could lock water deep inside Earth

18-09-2026

3D X-ray diffraction imaging reveals hidden structures inside a superconductor

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15-09-2026

Sublattice-selective magnetoelastic coupling in a frustrated cryogenic magnet

11-09-2026

A new form of superionic ice under extreme conditions in planetary interiors

04-09-2026

Why hexagonal boron nitride grows differently on liquid and solid copper

Tech Talk

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21-07-2026

Capturing materials dynamics in real time using dark-field X-ray microscopy

07-07-2026

Quasi-simultaneous PXRD–XANES capability for high-pressure operando studies on ID10-SURF

02-07-2026

New control system streamlines high-throughput BioSAXS experiments

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29-09-2026

ESRF endorses European Charter for industrial users of research infrastructures

18-05-2026

ESRF contributes to European Position Paper on RTI

02-03-2026

ICT 2027 is coming to Grenoble

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