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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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UK materials scientist wins prestigious Hamburg Prize
Added: 14 Nov 2022
The British scientist Nicola Spaldin has won the prestigious Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics …

Heriot-Watt joint initiative to market medical design
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Heriot-Watt University and Technology Scotland will work together to boost access to sustainable me…

How can AI advance laboratory research?
Added: 21 Oct 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making waves across industries, and laboratory research may be the …

Vitae Three Minute Thesis victor is second Kingston Uni winner in a row
Added: 30 Sep 2022
Bioengineer Sadaf Akbari beat rivals from nearly 70 universities across the UK and Ireland to win a…

Jacobs to support refurbishment of UK nuclear research laboratories
Added: 26 Sep 2022
US technical consultancy leaders Jacobs has won a £10 million contract to support National Nuclear …

CCDC grants aim to inspire tomorrow’s structural chemistry pioneers
Added: 11 Sep 2022
One of the world’s leading resources for structural chemistry, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Cent…

Liquid platinum catalyst offers sustainable solution for industry
Added: 27 Aug 2022
Australian scientists say they have found a way to employ platinum as a potentially scalable indust…

Avoiding common pitfalls deploying customised fume cupboards
Added: 23 Aug 2022
Fume cupboards are vital in an industrial setting but they need to be tailored carefully to the ind…

Synthetic polymers offer means to bypass gene editing for biocatalysis
Added: 20 Aug 2022
Scientists believe they have found a way to improve the efficiency of biocatalysis by avoiding the …

UWS’s third venture aims for fat returns from thin films
Added: 13 Aug 2022
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is aiming to tap into the country’s reputation as a ma…

Creating a Successful Lab Buildout Plan
Added: 8 Aug 2022
Creating a detailed plan is a vital part of making lab build projects run smoothly with minimal pit…
Leading chemical and utility firms join RSC polymer sustainability task force
Added: 3 Jul 2022
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced four leading industry recruits have joined its S…

Cambridge’s ninth fund underlines place as UK uni spin-outs investment leader
Added: 26 Jun 2022
Cambridge University has cemented its standing as the UK leader for university spin-outs with the f…

REF results hammer home the importance of UK university-business collaboration
Added: 1 Jun 2022
The results of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) identify ‘world-leading’ and ‘interna…

Five-letter words for research: ‘trial’ and ‘error’
Added: 31 May 2022
You now have six attempts to guess the craze that has hooked Dr Matthew Partridge as he envisages a…