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Scottish researchers seek to turn plastic waste into pharmaceuticals
Added: 30 Jul 2023
A new project led by Scottish researchers is aiming to revolutionise the pharmaceutical industry by…

NPL and STFC collaborate on small satellite calibration facility
Added: 29 Jul 2023
The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is partnering with the Science and Technology Facilities Cou…

Remote robotic tech ‘could transform medical assessment in high risk situations’
Added: 23 Jul 2023
Research at Sheffield University is claiming a breakthrough in robotics technology enabling remote …

Hyper-space
Added: 16 Jul 2023
There’s a temptation in space science to bill every act of participation as a success, whatever the…

Embrace the new
Added: 26 Jun 2023
Its name harks back to a bygone era, but the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is at the …

Breakthrough recognition for science publishing’s invisible co-reviewers
Added: 25 Jun 2023
One of the science world’s leading publishers is taking a stand on behalf of hundreds of young rese…

Sponge enables robot to crack the egg challenge
Added: 11 Jun 2023
Robots have demonstrated their efficiency over the human and manual approach in many areas but stil…

Concern as India cuts back on school science teaching
Added: 4 Jun 2023
India’s education training authority has caused alarm with its decision to remove some key elements…

Metrology’s ‘house journal’ celebrates 100 not out
Added: 21 May 2023
The World’s oldest scientific instrumentation and measurement journal is celebrating a century of p…

UKRI minimum stipend to rise to £18.6k for academic year
Added: 6 May 2023
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has said its minimum stipend for funded doctoral students’ living…

‘Robocarp’ makes splash with motion breakthrough
Added: 28 Apr 2023
A coil-powered robot fish designed by scientists at the University of Bristol could enhance underwa…

Bristol team help boost Chornobyl radiation monitoring
Added: 3 Apr 2023
Researchers from the University of Bristol will be part of the international team seeking to repair…

Northern Ireland deal appears to boost UK’s Horizon Europe hopes
Added: 1 Mar 2023
Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s achievement of an agreed new Northern Ireland protocol with his Europe…

Treasury opts for stealth to ‘announce’ takeback of £1.6 bill EU Horizon funds
Added: 23 Feb 2023
Some £1.6 billion in funds allocated for scientific research has been taken back by the Treasury.
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Weighing: the environmental impact
Added: 10 Feb 2023
Labs are used to taking account of the effect of their processes on the environment but on a smalle…

Scientific nesting places
Added: 6 Feb 2023
If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does hav…

Can you use a large electron microscope next to a freight train?
Added: 5 Dec 2022
Thomas E Davies describes the challenges of operating highly sensitive equipment in a city environm…

Multi-million award to scale up uni lab’s cyber-crime solution research
Added: 4 Dec 2022
Heriot-Watt University academic Mehul Malik has been awarded £2.5 million from the Royal Academy of…

Automated material analysis offers cut to cost and human error
Added: 4 Dec 2022
Researchers in Japan have developed a method to automate a mathematical procedure used to analyse X…

Dystopia calling…
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Dr Matthew Partridge has seen the 2050 future and it works, even if we no longer understand why.
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