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When plasma leaves the laboratory

April 13, 2026
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The orbital laboratory is evolving into something more ambitious, a controlled industrial environment for producing next-generation materials, explains Ed Smith and Andrew Griffiths. For decades, crystalline research in space has been an invaluable...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Policy
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Scheme allows threatened plant to dock at island base

April 12, 2026
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One of the world’s rarest dock and coastal plants has received a massive conservation boost, thanks to a wholesale reintroduction at its Welsh stronghold.
Life Sciences, Earth & Environmental
Biology, Botany, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Maths award adds up to nearly £2.8 mill for exchange research

April 10, 2026
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Two of Sweden’s leading institutions have donated the equivalent of £2.78 million to fund 16 mathematicians for work ranging from improved ice melt forecasting to the physics of the world’s...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oceanography, Physics
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Lab gloves could inflate microplastics readings suggests study

April 4, 2026
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Scientists may be overestimating their assessments of microplastics pollution, with the cause lying literally in their own hands, suggests a new study. University of Michigan (U-M) researchers say they have...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Atmospheric Sciences, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Surface and microstructure Analysis
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March 23, 2026
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‘Breakthrough’ claimed for sustainable reuse of industrial rubber

March 21, 2026
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Two pioneering techniques for the sustainable use of nitrile rubber products as new carbon dioxide-capturing materials have been unveiled by the University of St Andrews.  Nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) is...
Materials, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Sustainability
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Collaborators apply intelligence to create smart telescopes

March 12, 2026
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Britain’s Hartree Centre facility has teamed with one of Africa’s leading astronomical institutions to develop an ‘intelligent observatory’ programme featuring smart, automated telescopes. The Hartree, which specialises in AI, high...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Atmospheric Sciences, Engineering, Environment
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NMRC site provides first ‘terrestrial anchor’ for UK space manufacturing

March 4, 2026
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Work has finished on what will be the UK’s first in-space manufacturing hub, the new National Microgravity Research Centre (NMRC) based in South Wales.
Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Astrophysics, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Policy
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UK built detector components arrive in US for flagship neutrino experiment

March 4, 2026
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Four ‘building-sized’ components which will play an essential role in the UK contribution to an ambitious international physics project have been shipped to the United States from the Daresbury Laboratory.
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astrophysics, Atmospheric Sciences, Energy, Environment, Particle Physics, Physics, Theoretical Physics
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Whale research suggests older lovers may have the best tunes

March 1, 2026
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Declines in commercial whaling have produced a notable demographic change in humpback whale populations: a growth in the proportion of older fathers.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Environment, Marine Biology
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