2024 marks 40 years since ISIS, the UK’s neutron user facility, first became operational. Since its origins in the 1940s, neutron scattering has emerged as a powerful means for understanding everything from human cells to quantum spins. Rosie de Laune and colleagues from ISIS examine the complex science and history behind the technique, and highlight some of the key research that has been performed at the facility over the last 40 years
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