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As part of this weekend's activities at the Grand Palais, Sir Peter Westmacott launched at the British Embassy a brand new science and art project, called the World's largest diffraction pattern, by contributing a silver stitch to what will become the world's largest diffraction pattern.
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Diamond Light Source will be joining several other European Light Sources at the Grand Palais as part of Paris European City of Science Festival from 13 - 16 November 2008.
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During a visit to Diamond Light Source on Friday 7th November, Lord Drayson, the new Science Minister, contributed the World’s largest diffraction pattern project by sewing the first silver stitch to what will become the world’s largest diffraction pattern.
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What are the origins of our planet, and the solar system that surrounds it? Without a direct geological record of the early history of the Earth, understanding how Earth and Moon were formed requires investigations in several distinct fields: Planetary dynamics, cosmo-chemistry and mass spectrometry, and material behaviour at the extreme conditions of planetary impacts and formation.
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Highly anisotropic graphene materials such as aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests, oriented CNTs arrays have been universally considered as an excellent electrode for electroanalysis because they make predominant use of the highly reactive edge planes in contrast to the nearly inert basal planes. However most aligned CNTs contain metal catalysts, which are also a possible source of their electrocatalytic activity. Therefore the extent to which the electrocatalytic properties are affected ...
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Bacteria that develop resistance to drugs can cause great problems in the treatment of infections and diseases. Multi-drug resistance bacteria pump the drugs out of their cells through membrane proteins known as transporters. To reveal the structure of these proteins and understand their mechanism it is necessary to isolate the proteins, grow crystals and collect data at powerful X-ray sources. An early success at Diamond Light Source has been achieved with crystals of the multidrug efflux ...
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It’s a stressful life for bacteria. Bacillus subtilis commonly lives in soil, where it’s under daily attack from heat, acid and salts in the soil. Scientists have been using Diamond to understand how the bacterial cells respond quickly to rapidly changing environments to survive. This research has been published in the journal Science.
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On Thursday 18th September, scientists from the University of Bath's Department of Chemistry became the first group of researchers to use Diamond Light Source's new Small Molecule Single Crystal Diffraction beamline (I19). Led by Professor Paul Raithby, who is also the chair of the group who helped to design and create I19, the team used Diamond's latest beamline to study the structures of metal organic frameworks (MOFs).
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Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, has appointed Professor Lord Broers as its new chairman. Lord Broers, who takes over from Sir David Cooksey, has had a distinguished career in electrical engineering, including almost 20 years in research with IBM, and is the immediate past President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Earthworm populations are helping scientists to understand more about soil that is contaminated with metal, how metals can drive evolution and what effect they themselves have on potentially toxic elements in the earth
