THE Oxfordshire Science Festival came to an explosive end with a VIP reception for some of the county’s leading scientists – including volcanologists.
The reception at Oxford’s Natural History Museum on Tuesday was hosted by Diamond Light Source, a company which uses a giant machine called a synchrotron to study volcanoes and understand more about when they might next erupt.
The machine speeds electrons up to near light speeds so they give off a light 10 billion times bright than the sun.
The reception brought an end to three weeks of experiments and discovery at the festival.
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Volcanologist, Prof David Pyle from Oxford University spoke about how his work with Diamond Light Source is helping research.
He said: “Our long-term goal is to understand patterns of behaviour of volcanoes so that we can can predict what happens next."
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