Sunday, July 16, 2006

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Diamond facility starts to shine

re: "...This new research facility, Diamond Light Source, represents the UK's largest scientific investment for 30 years.
Covering the area of five football pitches, the facility has cost about £300m - funded by the government and the Wellcome Trust - and is on-track to open in just six months' time. At its heart is a synchrotron - a particle accelerator that uses electrons to generate powerful "synchrotron" light that enables scientists to look inside matter at the molecular and atomic scale..."...

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