‘Super-microscope’ opens at Isis

November 11, 2008

The world’s newest "super microscope" is fired up and ready to go.
The £200m second target station at Isis in Oxfordshire will allow scientists to see things 10,000 times thinner than a human hair.

The machine is known as a pulsed neutron source. But what does that actually mean?

Well, if you’re a physicist curious to see how matter behaves when no-one is looking, then Isis is your private snoop.

Isis (left) and Diamond (right) have
different techniques for visualising matter.

If you’re an engineer trying to make the hydrogen car a working reality, then Isis is your genie.

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Want to see how spiders spin silk stronger than steel? Or peer into a newborn baby’s lungs as they take their first breath?

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