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‘Open Design’: Printing research hardware to save on capitol costs
Added: 7 May 2020
Free and open source hardware (FOSH) is rapidly gaining momentum as part of a global ‘open design m…
Extending the design rules for clean energy production
Added: 7 May 2020
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have uncovered the …
Scalable ‘Twistronics’ for exotic 2D applications
Added: 4 May 2020
Researchers from Aalto University have developed a completely new method for twisting atomically th…
Controlled spherical crystallography for targeted drug delivery
Added: 4 May 2020
Results from a research collaboration between researchers at Drexel’s College of Engineering and th…
Going round in circles
Added: 9 Apr 2020
Single use plastics are a staple in the lab – but they are also are part of the plastics pollution …
Graphene device bridges the terahertz gap
Added: 5 Feb 2020
Researchers have used graphene to create a device which will unlock the elusive terahertz wavelengt…
Getting into the lab, via the stomach
Added: 26 Jan 2020
Of all the incentives lab supply companies have in their arsenal – there is one guaranteed way they…
An ode to imagination
Added: 15 Jan 2020
Frustrated by siloed science, Dr Jennifer Rohn bemoans the lack of cross-disciplinary imagination t…
Carbon nanotubes grown on newsprint
Added: 26 Nov 2019
Your old copies of Lab News may still have some unexpected uses in the lab…
Ultra-fine particles linked to brain cancer
Added: 14 Nov 2019
Air pollution nanoparticles have been linked to brain cancer for the first time.
Time to reconcile science and philosophy
Added: 4 Nov 2019
Despite close historical ties, philosophy and science have had a bumpy relationship in the modern e…
More power to you
Added: 28 Oct 2019
Our need for battery power is insatiable and current lithium-ion anode technology just won’t cut it…
Rahko raises £1.3M for quantum chemistry simulation
Added: 18 Oct 2019
UCL spin-out Rahko has raised £1.3 million in seed funding to develop its machine learning-powered …
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…
ESA opens calls for ISS lab upgrade
Added: 14 Oct 2019
The European Space Agency is looking for industry help to upgrade the Columbus laboratory aboard th…
Innovation and sustainability for your lab
Added: 14 Oct 2019
Source new technologies, future-proof your laboratory and find out ways to make procurement sustain…
Lithium-ion researchers win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Added: 9 Oct 2019
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers for their work on the developmen…
It’s in the blood
Added: 7 Oct 2019
Despite – or perhaps because of – its importance, some of the world’s most deadly diseases have the…
Nanolaser functions inside living human tissue
Added: 26 Sep 2019
A US team has developed a nanolaser that can operate in confined spaces such as quantum circuits, m…
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…
