The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source houses synchrotron radiation facilities for research in physics, chemistry, biology, and environmental and materials sciences.
Scientists at Daresbury fear closure of their existing synchrotron, which they say will leave the North-West with fewer than 300 government-funded research jobs while the South-East has more than 8, 500.
By bombarding the fossils with an infrared synchrotron beam a noninvasive way of analyzing a material's internal chemistry the scientists said they detected molecular traces of an organic protein inside the mineralized bones.
In a recent paper, Dr Jacobson argues that observations made of synchrotron radiation produced by the Crab nebula (the remnants of a supernova observed in 1054) limit the granularity of space.