Registration Open for "Neutrons and Life Sciences"
This ESS Science Symposium will bring together current and future users of neutron techniques in the biomedical sciences to discuss common challenges and future opportunities at ESS.
Science and Instruments
ESS will be a prominent European research user facility, welcoming scientists from around the globe to come and make use of world-leading neutron instruments and laboratories. A crossroads of researchers from different disciplines, ESS will be a scientific hub where ideas and visions are born.
The samples probed by neutrons range from metal alloys to cancer drugs, from superconductors to tomato seedlings. Far from the extremes of spatial and temporal dimensions studied in high-energy physics, here we find challenges in the infinite complexity of natural and manmade materials that surround us, challenges with utmost relevance for technological progress and the future prosperity of society.
On these pages, you will find examples of science using neutrons from a wide range of different research areas, and you'll get an idea of what will be made possible by the unique capabilities of ESS. You can read about the different neutron-scattering techniques and instruments that are being developed at ESS, and follow the progress being made in neutron technologies and data management systems.
There are many ways to get involved in the scientific and technological development of ESS, and we are keen to collaborate with both the academic and the industrial research sector. Members of staff present themselves on the staff pages, and our European partners are presented on the partners page. Stay up-to-date through the events listing on the right-hand side and the news flow below, and feel free to attend our seminars and workshops.
Welcome to the ESS Science Directorate!
News
Scientists Met in Aarhus to Discuss Neutron Protein Crystallography at ESS
Structural biology using neutrons is a small but growing area, which will be much benefitted by the high neutron flux and dedicated support facilities of ESS.
3rd Science & Scientists at ESS
This year's Science and Scientists at ESS will be held on Monday July 8, 2013, as a satellite to the International Conference on Neutron Scattering (ICNS) in Edinburgh.
Registration Now Open for IKON4 - A Meeting for the Collaborative Creation of the ESS Instrument Suite
On Feb 13-14, scientists from around Europe will meet in Lund for IKON4, a working meeting for the in-kind contributors to the ESS instruments, neutron technologies and science support facilities.
Shoot Protons and Tickle Electrons!
An interactive exhibition on ESS and MAX IV was inaugurated at the Science Centre LTH in Lund on Dec. 13th.
Possibilities with ESS and MAX IV Discussed at MAX-lab User Meeting
On September 24-26 MAX-lab, the synchrotron facility in Lund, organised its 25th Annual User Meeting in Lund, Sweden.
IKON Meetings Have Grown 50%
The third IKON-meeting, held on September 19th and 20t , attracted more than 160 scientists to Lund, where they discussed the future possibilities at the European Spallation Source.
First Call for Instruments to be Built at ESS Open
For the first time, ESS invites all collaborators within the ESS Instruments Programme to submit proposals for instruments to be built at ESS.
Opposites Repel: New Phenomenon Discovered by ESS Scientists
An international team of scientists lead by ESS Director for Science, Dimitri Argyriou, have discovered that in a class of materials known as Multiferroics, two poles behaves in a opposite way than...