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December 2024 ESRFnews
CONTENTS
Number 98 December 2024
How to make a map of every neuron, p12
NEWS
6 EBS brilliance reveals fate of ‘over-
compressed’ water
7 ESRF celebrates 30 years of user experiments;
Unsafe battery features exposed; User Meeting
organisers welcome registrants
8 Ultrafast switch observed; New iron oxides
found; ID01 captures nanoparticle strain
dynamics
9 Nanoscope opens to users Xrays hint at new
potential for geothermal energy
INSIGHT
10 The future of industry
Cover image Electron microscopy provides a connectome of the fruit fly brain Credit
Azevedo et al Nature 2024
FEATURES
12 Connecting the dots
17 The best of both worlds
INDUSTRY
20 Bye bye plastic?
EVENTSMOVERS
22 Explore ESRF beamlines ESRF User Meeting Machine
learning in cellular structural biology Industry meets ESRF
Michael Krisch Costas Fountas Britta Redlich
The results of a unique industry-academia pairing programme for PhDs, p17
USER CORNER
19 Dates for the diary; Useful contacts; News from the beamlines
30 years at the forefront of science, p7
PORTRAIT
21 A new era with ESRFEBS
EDITORIAL
5 Celebrating 30 years of science
