Join us for a dive into matter, discovering living objects and synthetic materials.

The Lyon Saint-Etienne Microscopy Consortium opens its doors to you to discover its scanning electron, transmission and atomic force microscopes. Experts will demonstrate these techniques on everyday objects. We'll see how the living world can inspire technological innovation. Nature's intelligence at the service of scientists!

New this year - Workshops for school groups : Science promotion (primary and secondary schools) and careers in science (secondary schools).

The METSA call for experiment requests will open on May 15 and close on June 6.

METSA is a Transmission Electron Microscopy and Atomic Probe Tomography network offering academic and industrial users access to instruments for experiments lasting from 2 to 5 days (https://www.metsa.fr/).

In the case of a new experiment request, a report on the experiment(s) already carried out is required.

You can now get in touch with the platform(s) on which you plan to apply for the second half of 2025.

A few months ago, the OSIRIS-REx space mission brought samples of the asteroid Bennu back to Earth. The first studies have just been published in Nature and Nature Astronomy. They show that this primitive body, dating from the earliest days of our solar system, possesses a complex chemistry with molecules that are later found in the living world.

Pierre-Marie Zanetta, now post-doc at the LGL-TPE in Saint-Etienne, studied these samples using electron microscopy. He is co-author of one of these published papers. Well done to him!

“Sillages” is an Arts & Sciences research project led by mineralogy researcher Anne-Magali Seydoux-Guillaume (LGL-TPE / CNRS / UJM) and visual artist Étienne Pageault.