Welcome to Diamond - the UK's national synchrotron
.jpg)
Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. By accelerating electrons to near light-speed, Diamond generates brilliant beams of light from infra-red to X-rays which are used for academic and industry research and development across a range of scientific disciplines including structural biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, earth and environmental sciences. 
Read more...
Latest News Wonders of synchrotron science to be revealed at the Oxfordshire Science Festival02 Mar 2012 Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility and one of Oxfordshire’s flagship science institutes, is celebrating its More...  MEP support for a facility “at the forefront of global scientific research”22 Feb 2012 Scientists from across the European Union are calling Oxfordshire home thanks to the pull of Diamond Light Source. The UK’s national synchrotron More...  Spin-orbit sum rule to speed up X-ray scattering research14 Feb 2012 A new theory developed by Prof Gerrit van der Laan, from the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Diamond Light Source, and published More...  Diamond Podcast - Episode 17: Careers23 Jan 2012 Listen to the latest news from Diamond Light Source online, including news, interviews with scientists and insights into what is happening at the UK national More...  Scientists shed new light on link between ‘killer cells’ and diabetes18 Jan 2012 Killer T-cells in the human body which help protect us from disease can inadvertently destroy cells that produce insulin, new research has uncovered. More... 
Subscribe to our newsfeed
|
Using DiamondDiamond is free at the point of access for researchers, provided the results are in the public domain. Diamond also welcomes industrial researchers through a range of access modes including proprietary research. Current Call Status: The Call for Proposals for AP12 is now open with a deadline of 2359hrs, 1 April 2012. Proposals should be submitted via the Online Proposal System Latest Science HighlightsTaking control of our vital signal transmitters 30 Jan 2012 G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the single most important drug target in the body because they are central to so many biological processes. Gaining More... A molecular star is born 21 Dec 2011 Diamond Light Source has recently played a key role in helping to reveal the exact structure of the most complex non-DNA molecular knot prepared to More... Studying dust frozen in time
08 Dec 2011 Ice cores drilled from the frozen Antarctic landscape are made up of layer upon layer of frozen snow, dating back hundreds of thousands of years. Trapped More... |
