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  • Diamond receives funding confirmation for the first phase of Diamond-II

    Diamond receives funding confirmation for the first phase of Diamond-II Jun 15, 2022

    UKRI announces £81.5M investment for the programme from their innovation infrastructure fund

  • The Chiral Materials Team awarded the Stephanie L Kwolek Award from the 2022 Chemistry Horizon Prize

    The Chiral Materials Team awarded the Stephanie L Kwolek Award from the 2022 Chemistry Horizon Prize Jun 9, 2022

    A key collaboration using The B23 Muller Matrix Polarimeter beamline end station at Diamond

  • Rosalind Franklin Institute, Diamond Light Source and Research Complex awarded Horizon prize by Royal Society of Chemistry

    Rosalind Franklin Institute, Diamond Light Source and Research Complex awarded Horizon prize by Royal Society of Chemistry Jun 7, 2022

    Diamond part of the collaboration awarded a prestigious Horizon prize for exceptional achievements and scientific excellence

  • New Director for massive upgrade into Diamond-II

    New Director for massive upgrade into Diamond-II May 31, 2022

    Diamond has appointed Rob Walden to lead the programme

  • Consortium formed to discover antivirals for COVID-19 receives funding to develop globally accessible treatments for pandemics

    Consortium formed to discover antivirals for COVID-19 receives funding to develop globally accessible treatments for pandemics May 19, 2022

    A consortium led by the COVID Moonshot, has been awarded $68m to research novel oral antivirals to combat future pandemics

  • Professor Andrew Harrison, CEO of Diamond Light Source elected Fellow of Royal Society

    Professor Andrew Harrison, CEO of Diamond Light Source elected Fellow of Royal Society May 10, 2022

    He is one of a select number of researchers who have today been elected as Fellows of the prestigious Royal Society.

  • Milestone progress for Diamond-II project in first year of preliminary funding

    Milestone progress for Diamond-II project in first year of preliminary funding Apr 21, 2022

    Driving our World-Changing Science to new research frontiers

  • The chemistry of the great extinction

    The chemistry of the great extinction Apr 15, 2022

    Gorgausaurus Fossil in Diamond House at Diamond Light Source Limited. (Photo credit: A. Male)

  • The race to preserve the bricks of a Tudor warship – the <i>Mary Rose</i>

    The race to preserve the bricks of a Tudor warship – the Mary Rose Apr 7, 2022

    Examining bricks used in the galley of the Mary Rose with synchrotron science

  • Diamond celebrates Double Anniversary revealing Diamond-II plus an Iconic Images of Science Exhibition

    Diamond celebrates Double Anniversary revealing Diamond-II plus an Iconic Images of Science Exhibition Mar 27, 2022

    This year marks 15 years of Diamond delivering science and innovation and 20 years since it was set up in 2002

  • Diamond reveals how a key enzyme helps break down plastic waste

    Diamond reveals how a key enzyme helps break down plastic waste Mar 22, 2022

    Tackling the challenge of plastic pollution and converting waste plastic into valuable products

  • Protective armour of superbug C. difficile revealed for the first time – providing target for treatments

    Protective armour of superbug C. difficile revealed for the first time – providing target for treatments Feb 25, 2022

    Novel imaging shows the close-knit yet flexible outer layer – like chainmail.

  • Scientists show how an enigmatic bacterium from the Gobi desert harvests solar energy

    Scientists show how an enigmatic bacterium from the Gobi desert harvests solar energy Feb 16, 2022

    eBIC helps solve the structure

  • Solving the ice problem in cryo-electron microscopy

    Solving the ice problem in cryo-electron microscopy Feb 11, 2022

    Research reports on a new cryo-EM software tool, IceBreaker

  • A Step Towards Rapid Early Detection of Chagas Disease

    A Step Towards Rapid Early Detection of Chagas Disease Jan 30, 2022

    Early detection could slow the spread of disease

  • Diamond helps look back over 3.5 billion years into the history of Mars

    Diamond helps look back over 3.5 billion years into the history of Mars Jan 21, 2022

    Researchers studied carbon in a Martian meteorite on the nanoscale

  • Diamond beamline provides breakthrough in mapping chiral materials

    Diamond beamline provides breakthrough in mapping chiral materials Jan 11, 2022

    A significant technical development on the Circular Dichroism beamline B23

  • Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca and other COVID vaccines found by scientists

    Trigger of rare blood clots with AstraZeneca and other COVID vaccines found by scientists Dec 9, 2021

    Collaborative team used Diamond to reveal the details

  • Diamond Light Source has been awarded the Bronze Engage Watermark

    Diamond Light Source has been awarded the Bronze Engage Watermark Dec 2, 2021

    Recognition of our outstanding commitment to public engagement

  • Diamond helps scientists pave the way for more effective pancreatic cancer research

    Diamond helps scientists pave the way for more effective pancreatic cancer research Nov 25, 2021

    Scientists used Diamond’s B16 Beamline.

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