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I just returned from leave to hear the sad news that former Life Sciences Director Professor Dame Louise Johnson has passed away.
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Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale cress as it is commonly known, made history back in 2000 by becoming the first plant to have its entire genetic code read by scientists, contributing to what is often referred to as biology's version of the book of life.
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A collaboration of scientists from the University of Nottingham, STFC’s ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Diamond Light Source, the University of Oxford and Peking University in China, have created a new low-cost material that can capture harmful gases, offering exciting prospects for combating atmospheric pollution.
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Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, launched its first collection of fiction stories on Friday 7th September with the help of a 6ft leaking, inquisitive alien slug - the star of a witty and strangely credible story entitled The Sound of Science.
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Dr Sihai Yang from the University of Nottingham is the winner of the 2011 Diamond PhD Investigator Award, a new initiative that rewards outstanding synchrotron research by Early Career Scientists.
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Tom Carey, a Diamond/University of Birmingham PhD student who has been working on the synchrotron's Powder Diffraction beamline (I11), has been presented with the British Zeolite Association's Founders' Award for the most promising postgraduate student of the year. Tom received his Founders' cup trophy and cash prize at the British Zeolite Association's 35th Annual Meeting in Chester on the 19th July.
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Diamond Light Source is being used to improve low cost methods for carbon capture. Scientists from the University of Leeds are using the UK’s national synchrotron to investigate the efficiency of calcium oxide (CaO) based materials as carbon dioxide (CO2) sorbents. Their results, published in the journal of Energy & Environmental Science, provide an explanation for one of the key mechanisms involved. This new knowledge will inform efforts to improve the efficiency of this economically viable ...
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It was with great excitement and anticipation that almost 2,000 visitors arrived at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, to take part in a special series of Inside Diamond open days, held to mark the facility’s 10th Anniversary.
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The first researchers to use the new Oxford Instruments high-field superconducting magnet at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, are searching for “hidden magnetic states”. If found, they will provide important confirmation of a theoretical model which could have important applications in magnetic data storage. Diamond’s BLADE beamline is providing them with the tools for the search.
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Stitching, sculpture and slug-like aliens all formed part of a special 10th Anniversary event that was on Friday 11th May at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.
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For our tenth anniversary celebrations we will be holding open days for the public on the 16th, 17th and 19th June 2012.
Inside Diamond is a series of public events, welcoming visitors to Diamond to meet our scientists, find out about the exciting work taking place here, and have a tour of the synchrotron itself.
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The traditional picture of comets as cold, icy, unchanging bodies throughout their history is being reappraised in the light of analyses of dust grains from Comet Wild2. A team led by the University of Leicester has detected the presence of iron in a dust grain, evidence of space weathering that could explain the rusty reddish colour of Wild2’s outer surface. The results were presented by Dr John Bridges at the National Astronomy Meeting in Manchester on Tuesday 27th March
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Diamond, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility and one of Oxfordshire’s flagship science institutes, was formed a decade ago, on the 27th March 2002, when the Wellcome Trust and the UK Government signed the Joint Venture Agreement and Diamond Light Source Ltd was born.
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A doughnut-shaped scientific building in the Oxfordshire countryside provided the unusual inspiration for a new international science fiction prize as the names of the winners are revealed this week by its organisers Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility.
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Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility and one of Oxfordshire’s flagship science institutes, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2012. A special programme of events are planned to mark this milestone and a number of them took place as part of the 2012 Oxfordshire Science Festival, which ran from the 3rd-18th March.
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Scientists from across the European Union are calling Oxfordshire home thanks to the pull of Diamond Light Source.
The UK’s national synchrotron science facility is based at Harwell and, while the majority of staff are from the UK, it employs scientists from around the world, including workers from more than half the EU member states.
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A new theory developed by Prof Gerrit van der Laan, from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Diamond Light Source, and published this week in the journal Physical Review Letters, provides a powerful sum rule that scientists can use to explore the properties of novel materials, such as those used for spintronics devices. Such materials require constant refinement of their physical qualities in order to keep up with the rapid advancement in a wide range of technologies, ...
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Killer T-cells in the human body which help protect us from disease can inadvertently destroy cells that produce insulin, new research has uncovered.
The study, which is based on experimental data collected at Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, provides the first evidence of this mechanism in action and could offer new understanding of the cause of Type 1 diabetes.
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Diamond Light Source is inviting the public to vote for their favourite Flash Fiction short story, as part of its Light Reading story writing competition.
Supporting Oxford’s bid to be UNESCO World Book Capital 2014, Diamond has been encouraging the nation to get creative and write short stories inspired by the synchrotron’s science output and the facility itself.
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Diamond’s X-ray Imaging and Coherence beamline has welcomed its first users. Researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield worked with the beamline team to develop techniques on the coherence branch of I13.
Professor John Rodenburg from the University of Sheffield, one of the lead researchers on the project, said, “We were using a variety of samples as a means to test the beamline’s capabilities.
