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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.
"I am thrilled to be part of the Oxfordshire Science Festival this year. I was an undergrad at Queen’s College, studying in the Earth Science Department, so it’s an odd feeling to come back and talk about my research. But I think it is important to tell people about what we’re up to at Diamond Light Source. Earthworms are far more complicated than we realise and are able to survive in all sorts of 'toxic' soil. We use the Diamond synchrotron to shed light on their ‘secret’ lives. Diamond’s X-rays help us to understand how earthworms cope with toxic levels of metals and how they affect the soil they live in."Professor Mark Hodson, Professor of Environmental Geochemistry and Mineralogy at University of Reading
Diamond Light Source is the UK's national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.
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