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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…
Scaled-down reactor turns greenhouse gas into fuel
Added: 4 Sep 2019
A newly-developed reactor containing a 2D catalyst is able to covert atmospheric CO2 into pure liqu…
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.
International research projects get £3.6M
Added: 29 Aug 2019
Research England has divvied up £3.6 million for eight research institutions in the UK to help fund…
Hogweed turned into carbon material for electrodes
Added: 29 Aug 2019
Hogweed is being put to use to manufacture electrodes for supercapacitors.
2D stack provides thermal isolation in electronics
Added: 22 Aug 2019
An insulator only 10 atoms deep could significantly reduce heat emissions in electronic devices whi…
Five things you learn from working in cleanrooms
Added: 19 Aug 2019
Want to avoid committing a serious faux pas before you start working in cleanrooms? That would be h…
Advancing a technical career
Added: 12 Aug 2019
Is your team motivated, professional, adaptable, connected, and competent?
Brexit: No-deal is a bad deal for UK science
Added: 9 Aug 2019
In a video livestreamed from his desk at Downing Street on Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson a…
Leeds creates thinnest 2D gold
Added: 8 Aug 2019
University of Leeds scientists have claimed first fabrication of freestanding 2D gold with a sub‐na…
3D-printed collagen forms functioning heart parts
Added: 6 Aug 2019
A new bioprinting method allows anyone to 3D-print functioning components of the human heart.
Reproducibility comes as standard (part 2)
Added: 5 Aug 2019
Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In t…
Agar Scientific buys London Resin Company
Added: 2 Aug 2019
Laboratory equipment supplier Agar Scientific has acquired London Resin Company for an undisclosed …
Eye-controlled contact lenses
Added: 29 Jul 2019
Biomechanical engineers have created a robotic lens that allows the wearer to focus on an image thr…
Reproducibility comes as standard (part 1)
Added: 29 Jul 2019
Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In t…
In his element
Added: 29 Jul 2019
We spoke to astrobiologist Robert Hazen whose new book, Symphony in C, draws parallels between carb…
Reproducibility crisis
Added: 23 Jul 2019
Inadequate reporting, variability in reagents and the pressure to publish all contribute to the rep…
Symphony in C
Added: 22 Jul 2019
Composed in four movements, Symphony in C explores carbon’s multifaceted characteristics and its ro…
Water droplet
Added: 15 Jul 2019
This amazing image – Crack Patterns I, by Thomas Séon – shows a water droplet falling onto a silico…
Simple glass acts like AI
Added: 10 Jul 2019
A non-electrical, low cost piece of glass replicates a machine’s neural network in order to recogni…