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    NXCT awarded £6.5 million EPSRC grant

    NXCT awarded £6.5 million EPSRC grant Oct 16, 2025

    The National X-ray Computed Tomography facility (NXCT) has been awarded a major five-year grant. Image courtesy of Archaeology South East.

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    Cosmic dust could have sparked life on Earth

    Cosmic dust could have sparked life on Earth Oct 10, 2025

    The building blocks of life may have travelled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, potentially helping kickstart biology as we know it.

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    Major milestone for Diamond’s MX automation

    Major milestone for Diamond’s MX automation Oct 9, 2025

    The fully automated unattended data collection (UDC) system hs successfully loaded its 500,000th crystal.

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    Mark Heron receives ICALEPCS Lifetime Achievement Award

    Mark Heron receives ICALEPCS Lifetime Achievement Award Oct 6, 2025

    Congratulations to Diamond's Head of Scientific Software, Controls and Computation Mark Heron for the ICALEPCS Lifetime Achievement Award

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    Open science yields broad-spectrum coronavirus antiviral

    Open science yields broad-spectrum coronavirus antiviral Sep 26, 2025

    First coronavirus antiviral developed through crowdsourcing, open-science, and AI. Photo credit: Xavier Vahed-DNDi

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    Engineered defects make stronger graphene

    Engineered defects make stronger graphene Sep 22, 2025

    Research on the I09 beamline finds that adding structural defects to graphene can improve is performance

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    Synchrotron science uncovers the origins of lizards

    Synchrotron science uncovers the origins of lizards Sep 11, 2025

    I12's absorption-contrast tomography technique has revealed new facts about the evolution of the earliest lizards. Image: Bob Nicolls

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    The tiny power behind volcanic eruptions

    The tiny power behind volcanic eruptions Sep 9, 2025

    I13-1 X-ray ptychography shows how nanolites can trigger explosive volcano eruptions.

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    The science of spaghetti: why gluten-free needs more attention

    The science of spaghetti: why gluten-free needs more attention Sep 5, 2025

    Small angle scattering reveals why gluten-free pasta is trickier to cook.

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    Patrick Wang's year in industry success at Diamond

    Patrick Wang's year in industry success at Diamond Aug 26, 2025

    A focus on a past student as the latest Year in Industry programme draws to a close

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    Smallest protein structure imaged with cryo-EM

    Smallest protein structure imaged with cryo-EM Aug 20, 2025

    Collaborative team from eBIC, Rosalind Franklin Institute and the University of Oxford develop new method

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    Sustainable nuclear graphite research powered by Diamond

    Sustainable nuclear graphite research powered by Diamond Aug 18, 2025

    Diamond Light Source will aid research which aims to transform the lifecycle of graphite in nuclear energy.

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    Rhiannon Boseley’s journey through life and science

    Rhiannon Boseley’s journey through life and science Aug 7, 2025

    Student Maggie Cinque talks with I18's Rhiannon Boseley on her scientific journey

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    Kamchatka quake reaches Diamond

    Kamchatka quake reaches Diamond Aug 5, 2025

    The synchrotron feels the tremors from massive earthquake.

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    Celebrating ten years of Krios I

    Celebrating ten years of Krios I Aug 1, 2025

    eBIC celebrates a decade of Diamond’s first Titan Krios microscope

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    Making metal atoms behave – one layer at a time

    Making metal atoms behave – one layer at a time Jul 23, 2025

    ePSIC research shows how argon can help metals stick to carbon in super-thin layers.

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    eBIC visualises how HIV highjacks human cells

    eBIC visualises how HIV highjacks human cells Jul 21, 2025

    Scientists have captured, for the first time, how HIV-1 enters the nucleus of a human cell - a key step in understanding infection.

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    UK and France ministers back AI drug discovery at Diamond

    UK and France ministers back AI drug discovery at Diamond Jul 18, 2025

    UK and French ministers visit Diamond to hear about the groundbreaking work planned by the OpenBind consortium.

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    Fossil reveals silent swimmer of the Jurassic deep

    Fossil reveals silent swimmer of the Jurassic deep Jul 17, 2025

    A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey in dark waters.

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    Diamond scientists win RSC prize for chemistry-aware AI software

    Diamond scientists win RSC prize for chemistry-aware AI software Jun 25, 2025

    Congratulations to Phil Chater, Francesco Carla, Chris Nicklin, and Jonathan Rawle.

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