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In a recent publication, researchers discovered that some joints may be more susceptible to inflammatory arthritis before birth, offering new insight into why rheumatoid arthritis attacks particular joints while sparing others.
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An international team of scientists has created a molecular movie of an enzyme building a key structure found in penicillin antibiotics, capturing fleeting chemical reactions that have never been seen before in such detail.
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Research into heart treatment is one of the many areas of work that has been done at Diamond, which we are celebrating on World Heart Day.
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Using Diamond Light Source's I18 beamline, researchers unlocked new insights into Iron Age craft techniques and were able to re-date a prehistoric terret.
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Diamond's I12 JEEP beamline contributes to the development of the world’s first open-access battery imaging library.
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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.
