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    Watching Solar Panel Crystals Grow: A Cheaper, More Versatile Future

    Watching Solar Panel Crystals Grow: A Cheaper, More Versatile Future May 27, 2016

    A new study has observed the way perovskite crystals grow, the results of which could lead to cheaper, more versatile solar panels.

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    Scientists track charge in future fuel cell material

    Scientists track charge in future fuel cell material May 18, 2016

    Scientists have mapped the movement of charge through a designer material for the first time by using a combination of X-ray and neutron techniques.

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    Type 1 diabetes and the immune system: scientists uncover another piece of the puzzle

    Type 1 diabetes and the immune system: scientists uncover another piece of the puzzle May 17, 2016

    Investigating the role of T-cells in the type 1 diabetes

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    Study reveals unprecedented control of negative thermal expansion

    Study reveals unprecedented control of negative thermal expansion May 12, 2016

    An international team of scientists led by Oxford University’s Dr Mark Senn have successfully demonstrated that a material can be manipulated to expand or contract at different rates when its temperature is changed.

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    XPDF beamline helps first users to uncover atomic secrets of intriguing new material

    XPDF beamline helps first users to uncover atomic secrets of intriguing new material May 6, 2016

    Diamond’s X-ray Pair Distribution Function beamline (XPDF) I15-1, has recently welcomed its first users. The first facility of its kind it Europe, XPDF allows scientists to scrutinise the characteristics of a huge range of materials on the atomic scale.

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    Structure of key biological receptors solved by UK scientists

    Structure of key biological receptors solved by UK scientists Apr 25, 2016

    Scientists make receptor discoveries that pave the way for new drugs to treat metabolic diseases

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    Scientists see inside the eyes of tropical bees

    Scientists see inside the eyes of tropical bees Apr 21, 2016

    Scientists are untangling the mystery of how tropical bees are able to navigate through dense rainforests with brains the size of sesame seeds.

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    Pioneering new beamline enables discovery of challenging protein structure linked with malaria and cancer

    Pioneering new beamline enables discovery of challenging protein structure linked with malaria and cancer Apr 19, 2016

    Scientists end 2-year-long struggle to unpick atomic protein structure using Diamond’s I23 beamline

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    Researchers discover new way of ‘locking up’ radioactive material

    Researchers discover new way of ‘locking up’ radioactive material Mar 9, 2016

    Researchers at The University of Manchester have discovered that an iron oxide mineral, hematite, reacts with radioactive neptunium to ‘lock it up’ within its structure.

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    Pioneering bright light research reveals bone density of sea cows for the first time

    Pioneering bright light research reveals bone density of sea cows for the first time Mar 4, 2016

    Famed for their gentle, slow-moving nature, sea cows (manatees and dugongs) are aquatic mammals closely related to the elephant. Now, their bone chemistry can be revealed for the very first time, after researchers from The University of Manchester, Diamond Light Source and College of Charleston utilised synchrotron-generated x-rays - which produce some of the brightest light in the universe - on 19 million-year-old fossil bones.

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    UEA scientists pave way for new generation of superbug drugs

    UEA scientists pave way for new generation of superbug drugs Feb 22, 2016

    Scientists at the University of East Anglia are getting closer to solving the problem of antibiotic resistance.

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    Showcasing Diamond’s science and public engagement on a global stage

    Showcasing Diamond’s science and public engagement on a global stage Feb 18, 2016

    The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society, provides researchers from across the globe with an exciting platform to share their latest results and thinking with a range of audiences. Around 7,000 people from 60 countries attend the meeting, which this year took place in Washington DC from the 11th – 15th February.

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    Leading the World in exploiting high speed light for super slow science

    Leading the World in exploiting high speed light for super slow science Feb 14, 2016

    the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting – will this year be discussing the advances enabled by the UK’s pioneering Long-Duration Experiment facility (LDE).

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    UK science community heads international drive to bring scientists and public together

    UK science community heads international drive to bring scientists and public together Feb 14, 2016

    Experts to highlight importance of public engagement at world’s biggest science conference, in Washington DC

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    UK science leads the way in nuclear research

    UK science leads the way in nuclear research Feb 14, 2016

    The UK’s synchrotron science facility, Diamond Light Source, is a hub for renewable energy and energy recycling research, but less known are its applications for nuclear energy.

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    ‘Molecular movie’ opens door to new cancer treatments

    ‘Molecular movie’ opens door to new cancer treatments Feb 9, 2016

    ‘Molecular movie’ opens door to new cancer treatments

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