Exploiting high speed light for super slow science

(Diamond Light Source) Scientists at the world's premier science conference -- the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting -- will this year be discussing the advances enabled by the UK's pioneering Long-Duration Experiment facility (LDE). Unmatched anywhere in the world, the LDE allows scientists to closely study the atomic and molecular behavior of matter under different conditions and over a period of two years.