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CHEMUK2026: Chemicals, with a laboratory slant

April 21, 2026
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CHEMUK’s remit runs wider than the laboratory but includes a specific focus upon it, linking what happens at the bench with industrial end results. “From the plant engineer searching for...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Birmingham NEC, CHEMUK, Trade Show
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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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How to solve a problem like implementing Electronic Lab Notebooks

February 22, 2026
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Changing circumstances now favour more widespread adoption of Electronic Lab Notebooks. Yet the process requires careful planning, warns Samantha Pearman-Kanza, who shares her experience of the University of Southampton’s implementation...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Materials, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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The invisible influencer

February 4, 2026
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Biological assays are a vital part of modern research and drug discovery, yet their reproducibility is still a persistent challenge. Rachel Sully explores how material factors play a critical role,...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Materials, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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Creating a digitally enabled, automated R&D environment

February 2, 2026
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Digitally enabled lab environments, driven by AI, can help accelerate innovation, reduce lab errors and ultimately save lives, argue Andrew Garrood, James Roden and Colin Terry.
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Health & Safety, Materials, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Sounding cocci-ed

January 11, 2026
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Broadcasters have a duty to promote science but when they do, it helps to get the details right, cautions Professor Brian J Ford.
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Stars present and future

January 5, 2026
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Another strong showing across the board in a hard-fought contest for the Lab Awards 2025.
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Forensics, Materials, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Lab Babble: Epochs of contamination

December 15, 2025
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LLMs and nukes: not so different, says Russ Swan.
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Health & Safety, Materials, Physics, Policy
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Powering the lab

December 8, 2025
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When a technology increases in sophistication, automation and ease of use, so can the results. In the case of electron microscopy, gains in the laboratory have been considerable, explain Anna...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Materials, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Board of science

December 1, 2025
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Celebrating Game Theory's 40th appearance, Ian Turner and Louise Robinson venture out from page 47 to discuss the lighter side of STEM.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environment, Food & Bev, Health & Safety, Interviews, Materials, Medical/Health, Physics, Policy
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