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December 2025 ESRFnews

CONTENTS

Number 101 December 2025

High-impact results in palaeontology, p12

NEWS

6 Sub-micron 3D imaging tests orthopaedic

scaffold

7 DFXM reveals deformation twins in

lightweight magnesium alloys; User Meeting

coming up;

Industry gathers to discuss opportunities

8 Tuna might be less toxic than previously

thought Nobel Prize for ESRF user

Chumakov receives award

9 New metal defies conventions Relaxation

mapped in metallic glass

INSIGHT

10 Following the light

Cover image Fossilised embryo of the dinosaur Massospondylus as imaged and reconstructed by phasecontrast tomography at the ESRF About 200 million years old it is one of the oldest

known dinosaur embryos Credit V FernandezESRF

FEATURES

12 The Skye’s the limit

17 A user’s guide to the future

INDUSTRY

21 Stabilising the power grid

EVENTSMOVERS

22 Explore ESRF beamlines 2D materials and interfaces of

tomorrow School and conference on Analysis of Diffraction

Data in real space ESRF User Meeting HERCULES European

School School on High Pressure Techniques at the ESRFEBS

New light-emitting metal, p9

USER CORNER

20 Dates for the diary; Useful contacts; News from the beamlines

The future of EBS science, p17

EDITORIAL

5 Celebrating five years of science with the ESRF–EBS