Diamond Light Source

Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron. It works like a giant microscope, harnessing the power of electrons to produce bright light that scientists can use to study anything from fossils to jet engines to viruses and vaccines.

Articles by Diamond Light Source

New Technique Could Be Blueprint of Capsid-Targeting Antivirals

Nov 22, 2021|2 min read

byDiamond Light Source

New technique using electron tomography and subtomogram averaging has solved the structure of the HIV capsid

Little Foot Fossil skull in Diamond's beamline I12

New Tech Allows First Glimpse of Human Ancestor's Life

Mar 03, 2021|5 min read

byDiamond Light Source

The remarkable completeness and great age of the Little Foot skeleton makes it a crucially important specimen in human origins research