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    First demonstration of stripe-free multilayer monochromator imaging

    First demonstration of stripe-free multilayer monochromator imaging Dec 29, 2025

    Diamond scientists have achieved a long-sought breakthrough in X-ray optics - the first demonstration of stripe-free X-ray imaging using multilayer (ML) monochromators.

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    Harwell lights up the Oxfordshire sky to celebrate its 80th anniversary

    Harwell lights up the Oxfordshire sky to celebrate its 80th anniversary Dec 19, 2025

    Harwell Campus illuminates the Oxfordshire sky as it celebrates its 80th anniversary on New Year’s Day

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    Diamond congratulates ePSIC science director Professor Angus Kirkland on RMS Honorary Fellowship

    Diamond congratulates ePSIC science director Professor Angus Kirkland on RMS Honorary Fellowship Dec 17, 2025

    ePSIC science director Professor Kirkland has been awarded the highest accolade bestowed by the society

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    A new window into the brain: laser powered electron microscopy accelerates connectome mapping

    A new window into the brain: laser powered electron microscopy accelerates connectome mapping Dec 9, 2025

    A new PEEM-based method promises to speed up whole-brain mapping, deepening our understanding of brain function and disease

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    Diamond hosts SESAME delegation

    Diamond hosts SESAME delegation Dec 1, 2025

    Distinguished international guests joined Diamond staff to discuss the SESAME synchrotron in Jordan

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    Frozen iron: how Antarctic glaciers feed the Southern Ocean’s hidden fertiliser

    Frozen iron: how Antarctic glaciers feed the Southern Ocean’s hidden fertiliser Nov 26, 2025

    Antarctic glaciers supply Fe(II)-rich, carbon-coated particles that resist oxidation, making more bioavailable iron available to phytoplankton

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    Diamond’s B16 validates crucial ATLAS detector component

    Diamond’s B16 validates crucial ATLAS detector component Nov 17, 2025

    The compontent is part of the next-generation tracking detectors for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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    Ancient lichens paved the way for life on Earth

    Ancient lichens paved the way for life on Earth Nov 11, 2025

    A lichen fossil reveals that life on land began with a living partnership between fungi and algae. Photo: J. Lacerda

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    Fast fragment discovery with protein crystals

    Fast fragment discovery with protein crystals Nov 7, 2025

    Protein crystals “pick out” which new molecules bind enabling faster, cheaper fragment-based drug discovery.

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    Hybrid frameworks join forces to clean polluted water

    Hybrid frameworks join forces to clean polluted water Oct 30, 2025

    Bridging frameworks: uncovering the interface that powers MOF-COF hybrids for water purification

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    Prof Gerrit van der Laan receives REXS 2025 Career Distinction Award

    Prof Gerrit van der Laan receives REXS 2025 Career Distinction Award Oct 27, 2025

    Prof van der Laan received the prize at the International Conference on Resonant Elastic X-ray Scattering for his work.

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    Chiral magnons leave a measurable X-ray fingerprint in altermagnet

    Chiral magnons leave a measurable X-ray fingerprint in altermagnet Oct 23, 2025

    Researchers show that circularly polarised resonant inelastic X-ray scattering can read the handedness of magnons in an altermagnet

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    Magnetic fossils powered ancient animal navigation

    Magnetic fossils powered ancient animal navigation Oct 20, 2025

    Diamond's I08-1 beamline captures the first 3D magnetic images of giant magnetofossils

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    Decoding how enzymes process healing fats

    Decoding how enzymes process healing fats Oct 17, 2025

    How human GST enzymes catalyse reactions with anti-inflammatory fatty acids

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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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    Under pressure: revealing the chemistry of Titan’s atmosphere

    Under pressure: revealing the chemistry of Titan’s atmosphere Oct 7, 2025

    World Space Week: Diamond’s I15 extreme conditions beamline sheds light on planetary chemical reactions and the origin of the life.

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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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    Diamond’s 15,000th publication explores rice nutrition

    Diamond’s 15,000th publication explores rice nutrition Oct 2, 2025

    Milestone paper reveals brown rice really is best, holding more minerals and nutrients

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