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  • Diamond launches major recruitment campaign to promote STEM careers at AAAS international science conference

    Diamond launches major recruitment campaign to promote STEM careers at AAAS international science conference Mar 3, 2023

    Shining a light on career pathways in world-changing science

  • Big aspirations and inspiration for STEM careers at AAAS

    Big aspirations and inspiration for STEM careers at AAAS Feb 23, 2023

    A workshop on March 3rd at the prestigious AAAS science conference in Washington DC will shine a light on career pathways in Diamond's ...

  • Webinars to showcase new approaches to handling big data for science will accelerate access to results, efficiency and openness

    Webinars to showcase new approaches to handling big data for science will accelerate access to results, efficiency and openness Feb 14, 2023

    Showcasing how the value of data can be increased by more efficient management to support world-changing science

  • Diamond Light Source signs MoU with The University of Oxford to accelerate pandemic preparedness

    Diamond Light Source signs MoU with The University of Oxford to accelerate pandemic preparedness Jan 12, 2023

    Oxford’s giants of science announce new collaboration to accelerate pandemic preparedness, structure-based drug discovery and vaccine design

  • Highlighting Student Opportunities for 2023

    Highlighting Student Opportunities for 2023 Jan 6, 2023

    Explore all our student programmes for 2023. Hurry to submit your Summer Placement applications, as the deadline is this Sunday!

  • Ancient asteroid grains provide insight into the evolution of our solar system

    Ancient asteroid grains provide insight into the evolution of our solar system Dec 19, 2022

    Diamond was used to study grains collected from a near-Earth asteroid to further our understanding of the evolution of our solar system

  • New Active Materials Lab opens at Diamond Light Source

    New Active Materials Lab opens at Diamond Light Source Nov 30, 2022

    First ever handling facility of this kind at a synchrotron, allowing experiments previously impossible in the UK

  • 12,000th paper from the UK’s synchrotron pushes the boundaries of studying proteins in motion

    12,000th paper from the UK’s synchrotron pushes the boundaries of studying proteins in motion Nov 18, 2022

    A powerful contribution of serial crystallography on a world-class beamline to mark a Diamond publication milestone

  • Success from widening access to basic science research tools and synchrotron expertise in Africa

    Success from widening access to basic science research tools and synchrotron expertise in Africa Nov 10, 2022

    Health and energy research highlights from START on World Science Day

  • Giving structural insight into influenza virus

    Giving structural insight into influenza virus Nov 4, 2022

    Collaborative research between University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source has unveiled new discoveries about the replication of the influenza virus

  • New Physical Science Director for Diamond Light Source

    New Physical Science Director for Diamond Light Source Nov 1, 2022

    Dr Adrian Mancuso has joined Diamond's world changing science community

  • Diamond Technician wins prestigious Institute of Physics Skills Award

    Diamond Technician wins prestigious Institute of Physics Skills Award Oct 24, 2022

    Dave McCue, a senior technician at Diamond Light Source has been awarded an Institute of Physics Technical Skills Award

  • Diamond's socio-economic impact of over £2.6 billion on UK science and economy revealed

    Diamond's socio-economic impact of over £2.6 billion on UK science and economy revealed Oct 19, 2022

    Importance of Science to world economies is highlighted at ICRI

  • Technical Design Report for the Diamond-II Machine now published

    Technical Design Report for the Diamond-II Machine now published Oct 14, 2022

    The launch of the Technical Design Report continues the milestone progress fo the programme

  • Targeting a parasite’s DNA could be more effective way to treat malaria

    Targeting a parasite’s DNA could be more effective way to treat malaria Aug 8, 2022

    Research from the University of Sheffield explores a new way of killing the Plasmodium parasite that causes malaria

  • An update on Software and Scientific Computing for Diamond-II

    An update on Software and Scientific Computing for Diamond-II Aug 5, 2022

    How our Scientific Software, Controls and Computation (SSCC) department plays a pivotal role in delivering science for the user community

  • Long-wavelength X-rays reveal structural detail of antibodies that could be the key to more effective cancer treatments

    Long-wavelength X-rays reveal structural detail of antibodies that could be the key to more effective cancer treatments Jul 8, 2022

    Engineering antibodies for a stronger immune response

  • Board game developed by scientists is winning plaudits for inspiring students to consider STEM careers

    Board game developed by scientists is winning plaudits for inspiring students to consider STEM careers Jul 1, 2022

    'Diamond: The Game’ gives first-hand experience of the different aspects of working in scientific research

  • 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

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