From July 13^th to 24^th, 96 young researchers from 17 countries and 27 different nationalities were gathered at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), in Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil) in order to learn about synchrotron techniques in a comprehensive way.

Sirius, the new synchrotron light source being constructed by the LNLS, was highlighted in the editorial published on Nature Photonics. The magazine mentions that new synchrotron sources are being commissioned and built around the globe, with an emphasis on developing countries.

Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS) has just become one of the accredited suppliers for the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) and now is able to receive for services through BNDES card. It works as a credit card and allows that individual microentrepreneurs (MEIs) and also micro, small and medium companies (MPMEs) pay for the use of experimental stations (known as beamlines) with easy payment conditions.

The PGM beamline for UV and soft X-ray spectroscopy has a new photoelectron spectroscopy end station, suitable for analysis of the electronic structure of materials. Researchers at the UVX light source have already used this new instrumentation, which will be transferred to the Sirius light source when it starts operation.

Two PhD students from LNLS were awarded with ACS-Langmuir prize during the 2014 edition of AutoOrg Conference, which took place in São Pedro (SP) from November 5^th to 7^th. ACS-Langmuir awarded the top ten best posters of the conference, and the works done by Jessica Oliveira and Willian Takemitsu Shigeyosi were selected among the best ones. The works were supervised by the LNLS researcher Mateus Borba Cardoso.

The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Funding Authority for Studies and Projects (FINEP) opened in September a call for proposals for public selection of companies based on São Paulo State that are interested in participating in the development of Sirius, the Brazilian new synchrotron light source.

Synchrotron radiation has become a powerful tool for studying unique ancient artifacts such as works of art and fossils. In the last decade, the structures of these historical materials have been revealed on a micro and nanometric scale, helping a variety of areas to understand the past and to learn how to preserve these relics.

The Higher European Research Course for Users of Large Experimental Systems (Hercules), a training course for doctors and post-doctors in the field of synchrotron radiation, celebrates its 20^th year with a Latin-American edition, the first outside of the European continent. The course is being conducted at the Brazilian Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (LNLS), in Campinas, between July 12 and 30, with the participation of 63 Brazilian and Latin-American researchers.

Brazil expects Argentina’s collaboration in the construction of a new synchrotron radiation source. On January 31, 2011, the Ministers of Science and Technology of the two countries, Aloizio Mercadante and Lino Barañao, met in Buenos Aires to sign a memorandum of understanding for the joint development of projects in the fields of accelerator physics, beamlines and experimental workstations for the new equipment to be installed at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light  Laboratory (LNLS) in Campinas (SP).

Four of the 37 thesis of PhD laureate in the 2010 edition of the Marechal-do-ar Casimiro Montenegro Filho award, conferred by the Strategic Affairs Secretariat of the Presidency (SAE), were based on researches conducted on the premises of the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), in Campinas. The LNLS houses the only  source of Synchrotron Radiation  in  Latin America and it is used by the scientific and technological community for  research in the fields of nanoscience, advanced materials, drugs, alternative energy, and others.