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Scientists have used X-ray images taken during a rocket flight to capture metal dendrites in microgravity for the first time, revealing insights that could improve manufacturing processes such as casting, welding and metal 3D printing.
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Harwell Campus and Diamond Light Source have unveiled Fragments, three striking sculptures inspired by the microscopic chemical fragments that help form the foundations of life-saving medicines.
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Research using Diamond Light Source's I18 beamline on historic glass artefacts from shipwrecks reveals new information about waste-form durability.
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In a new study, a team of researchers from Ghent University used Diamond’s I13-2 beamline to investigate whether European beech trees could accurately reconstruct past summer temperatures.
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Researchers from the University of Warwick used advanced X-ray spectroscopy on Diamond’s B07 and I09 beamlines to help answer a key question in battery research: where does charge come from? With growing interest in increasing the energy storage of current and next-generation battery cathodes to power future electric vehicles and aircraft, the paper’s findings arrived at a timely moment.
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Scientists have conducted research revealing how Streptococcus pneumoniae selectively captures the host sugar sialic acid as soon as it is released from human cells
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Beneath the icy crusts of moons such as Europa and Enceladus lie vast subsurface oceans that are among the most promising places in the Solar System to search for signs of life.
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Research at Diamond has uncovered how the tiny structures and pigments of butterfly wings work together to create dazzling colours.
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Team SMOM, which includes Diamond scientist Mark Warren from the I19 beamline, has been awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Dalton Horizon Prize.
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In a novel achievement, researchers at Diamond InfraRed beamline have directly captured the molecular changes between three-dimensional (bulk) water and two-dimensional confined water
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Diamond Light Source is proud to be a part of the newly launched National Research Organisations (NRO) Group. The NRO Group is the first alliance of its kind, bringing together the UK's world-class research organisations.
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Led by STFC’s Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC), the Autonomous Laboratories project brings together experts from STFC Scientific Computing, Diamond Light Source, and the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure Programme (PSDI).
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The Rosalind Franklin Institute, working alongside Diamond Light Source and the Mary Lyon Centre, has awarded funding to four new collaborative projects through a pump prime initiative.
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Researchers at Diamond have developed a laser Speckle-based Curvature Optical Metrology (SCOM) instrument that directly measures two-dimensional surface curvature.
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The Diamond-II upgrade has reached another significant milestone with the successful assembly of the first three pre-series vacuum strings.
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The Vesuvius Challenge has achieved a historic discovery in the Herculaneum scrolls, revealing new texts, titles and authors unknown to history and ushering in a new era for the study of the ancient world.
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Researchers have developed a powerful new X-ray technique that captures magnetic motion in unprecedented detail.
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Diamond is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Michael Fitzpatrick, FREng FLSW CEng CSci FIMMM, to the role of interim Chair of the Board.
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Scientists have shed light on a thermal process in magma that may help explain why similar volcanic systems can produce very different eruptive behaviours.
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A research team from the University of Reading, the University of East London, the University of Chicago and Diamond Light Source have used zinc-specific advanced X-ray spectroscopy available at the I20-Scanning beamline to investigate what factors impact reactivity ‘at’ zinc.
