All Earth & Environmental
A bad acid trip
Added: 21 Oct 2019
Ocean acidifcation, the lesser known relative of global warming, causes particular damage to coral …
Wellcome Trust on the hunt for best public engagement
Added: 16 Oct 2019
The Wellcome Trust has launched an initiative to find the best examples of public engagement projec…
Deep Carbon Observatory quantifies carbon emissions
Added: 8 Oct 2019
Humanity’s annual carbon emissions are between 40 to 100 times greater than all volcanic emissions,…
AMR threat found in urban beaches
Added: 2 Oct 2019
An Australian study has found elevated levels of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ABR) in public beac…
SERC experiments show CO2 stunts wetlands
Added: 27 Sep 2019
While CO2 is essential for plant growth, excessive CO2 in the atmosphere is stunting growth in mars…
Game Theory: Bone Wars
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Games have never been more popular and in their column Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner, take u…
Singing the praises of odd numbers
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Annoy peer reviewers and create an inclusive numerical policy? It’s a win win for Dr Matthew Partri…
PM reintroduces graduate visa
Added: 18 Sep 2019
A new work visa introduced by Boris Johnson’s government will allow international science students …
Win: Bloom
Added: 17 Sep 2019
From food to fuel, fertiliser and plastic production, Kassinger charts the applications of algae an…
Simple, beautiful, classic: MIT creates blackest black material
Added: 16 Sep 2019
Engineers have claimed a new record for the blackest material ever created.
The good, the bad and the brexit
Added: 16 Sep 2019
The new Government has been in place for only a few weeks now and in that time, we’ve already had a…
Celebrating the improbable
Added: 13 Sep 2019
Another year, another heart-warming evening commemorating the silly, unusual and often random side …
eDNA project launches first sampling event
Added: 12 Sep 2019
An international environmental DNA project that uses citizen science to monitor waterways has start…
First evidence of water discovered on exoplanet
Added: 12 Sep 2019
For the first time, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere a planet outside our solar sys…
Scalable membrane could filter greenhouse gases
Added: 11 Sep 2019
A new membrane filtration could be used to separate greenhouse gases from waste emissions on an ind…
$5.8M for renewable photocatalytic converter
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Houston-based plasmonics company Syzygy has raised $5.8 million to develop its eco-friendly photoca…
Are you ready for show time?
Added: 9 Sep 2019
Once again we are delighted to have partnered with the Lab Innovations show – and we want you to be…
Drought-resistant cereal gene isolated
Added: 2 Sep 2019
Plant scientists have identified a gene responsible for drought resistance in barley that could lea…
Ghost of science future
Added: 2 Sep 2019
Well, here we are. Four months from the completion of the second decade in the third millennium.
Oldest parasitic DNA found in coprolite
Added: 28 Aug 2019
The oldest parasite DNA ever recorded has been discovered in fossilised puma faeces.
