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Medtech funding for implant company
Added: 24 Mar 2020
A Newcastle medtech company has secured nearly £250,000 in funding from Innovate UK to further its …

Space-bound human tissue
Added: 10 Mar 2020
The University of Zurich has sent adult human stem cells to the International Space Station to expl…

Nanoarray breakthrough aids electric vehicles
Added: 4 Mar 2020
A team from the University of Bristol have developed a new type of nanoelectromechanical relay to e…

Bridging the neutron gap
Added: 3 Mar 2020
So much more than the quiet neighbour of the sub-atomic world, neutrons hold the key to so many bre…

Bird flight secret offers aircraft design breakthrough
Added: 18 Feb 2020
A team of scientists and engineers have gained new insight in the aerodynamics of gliding birds – s…

(A)I must insist
Added: 10 Feb 2020
In a data-rich research landscape – only a mix of man and machine will give us hope of extracting k…

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…

The final frontier of environmental science
Added: 23 Jan 2020
As environmental concerns reach fever pitch – aviation is increasingly in the spotlight. But so far…

Catching the elusive neutrino
Added: 16 Jan 2020
From seeing a blackhole form to understanding antimatter… neutrinos could hold the keys to them all…

Pioneering citizen science project celebrates 10th year
Added: 8 Jan 2020
The citizen science platform, Zooniverse, is celebrating its 10thanniversary.

New carbon nanotube source relief for nanotech community
Added: 8 Jan 2020
A new method of producing carbon nanotubescould have solved a growing problem in the field of carbo…

E.coli engineered to consume CO2
Added: 28 Nov 2019
Synthetic biologists have engineered an autotrophic form of bacteria.

Carbon nanotubes grown on newsprint
Added: 26 Nov 2019
Your old copies of Lab News may still have some unexpected uses in the lab…

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…

Pushing the lithium-ion limit
Added: 29 Oct 2019
As the global demand for consumer electronics, electric cars and renewable energy rise, the need fo…

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…

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…