£500m upgrade for Diamond Light Source science facility in Oxfordshire

Government investment for leading facility that kickstarted development of drugs to combat Covid among other key contributions to medical science.  Based in Harwell in Oxfordshire, Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national ‘synchrotron’, a sort of giant microscope capable of producing light some 10bn times brighter than the Sun. This cutting-edge technology has been used in … Continue reading £500m upgrade for Diamond Light Source science facility in Oxfordshire