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The summer studentship carried out jointly with Diamond Light Source and the University of York aimed to explore and test the use of synchrotron X-ray Nanoprobe analyses for the study of archaeological remains.

As Ferey Faridian rummaged through a box of documents at his home in California, he came across an intriguing old letter.

I have been studying and photographing rocks under all sorts of microscopes for more than thirty years. I enjoy this part of my work as a geologist more than ever. A good optical microscope, with a well-trained eye, is still the essential tool for successful research in my field.