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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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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
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A new picture of the composition of comets is emerging with the help of 21st century technology available at Diamond, the UK’s national synchrotron light source, in Oxfordshire.
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As part of this week’s BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) Festival of Science in Liverpool, Diamond Light Source will be showcasing its science in imaginative ways in a series of events across Liverpool.
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Six young prospective engineers are embarking on a renowned apprenticeship scheme which will see them training at two of Oxfordshire's most prestigious science facilities: Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility, and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).
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Today, Monday 1st September 2008, the official opening of the Membrane Protein Laboratory (MPL) takes place at Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, UK.
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The eleventh experimental station to come online at the UK’s synchrotron facility has received its first users, a research group from the MRC-National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR), based in London, focusing on the structure and function of protein complexes that are involved in medically important disease processes.
