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Stand by for the big freeze
Added: 26 Oct 2024
Crisp white snow, glaciers all around, icicles melting in the summer sun – it’s July in Britain 50 …
Finnish university on the circular economy CACE
Added: 20 Oct 2024
Applications are invited for a recently debuted Master’s programme in circular economy chemistry an…
Cool roofs could have saved c250 heatwave deaths, claims UCL/Exeter study
Added: 1 Oct 2024
Nearly 250 lives could have been prevented during London’s record 2018 hot summer if the capital ha…
Combatting microplastics with microscopy
Added: 30 Sep 2024
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations…
Speedy separation offers tool for microplastics and cancer cell studies
Added: 17 Aug 2024
Researchers in Sweden have pinpointed a method to speed the separation of particles in fluids, prov…
Sample preparation of environmental samples for trace metal analysis
Added: 13 Aug 2024
A technical note is available from Analytix that highlights using a Milestone Ethos UP microwave di…
Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine
Added: 11 Aug 2024
The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-me…
A matter of scale
Added: 22 Jul 2024
Funding support and infrastructure are needed to bring bio-based products and processes to market a…
PrISMa creators aim to bridge net zero innovation’s valley of death
Added: 22 Jul 2024
It’s the phrase that encapsulates the perennial challenge of transitioning a successful laboratory …
Seaweed-to-packaging spinout scoops £4million-plus private investment
Added: 9 Jun 2024
Bath university spinout Kelpi has secured £4.35 million in funding from a slew of City firms to lau…
Five years beavering bears water for ecologists
Added: 1 Apr 2024
An East Anglian project to reintroduce beavers to the region claims the animals have contributed to…
Keep it clean
Added: 5 Feb 2024
Chemical disinfectants are hazardous to lab staff, and if discharged into the wastewater, pose a he…
Satellite offers a flood warning breakthrough
Added: 14 Jan 2024
Satellite video offers an enhanced means to monitor river flow and provide earlier and more compreh…
DEFRA data share essential to pandemic preparation urges expert
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Non-healthcare bodies such as DEFRA need to collaborate more fully with healthcare organisations in…
Lab Babble: Swan’s Goosey gander
Added: 20 Nov 2023
Success is never guaranteed, we need to reward doggedness and chance, Russ Swan reminds us.
Bath puts safer water on the map via new OASIS
Added: 12 Nov 2023
A portable water quality monitor developed by University of Bath students aims to enable rapid dete…
Walking the talk
Added: 30 Oct 2023
It’s easy to sign up to greener practice in principle but how do life sciences firms prove they del…
ABB and Imperial agree second decade of carbon capture collaboration
Added: 29 Oct 2023
Technology giant ABB and Imperial College London have renewed their longstanding carbon capture joi…
The root of it
Added: 2 Oct 2023
Seaweed is an intrinsic part of our existence on this planet and it could just be the very thing th…
Sheffield scientists aid steel city to lead sector’s transition to greener fuel
Added: 24 Sep 2023
Sheffield's place as a steel industry pioneer could receive a renewed boost as it prepares to lead …