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Future Labs Live: Digital drive goes up a gear

April 21, 2026
Future Labs Live is a network of events across three continents and Basel is its centrepiece. While analytica in Germany is by far the single largest laboratory show, Future Labs...

Refit and proper

April 21, 2026
Conversion is an attractive alternative to new lab builds, says Todd Payne, but coherent design, reduced energy, full compliance and access for all are prerequisites. With world-class universities, research institutes and a...

Moon myths: Artemis in proportion

April 16, 2026
Curious how space science is always exaggerated. If there’s a meteor shower due, when you might see a fleeting shooting star every five minutes or so, the artwork they provide...

When plasma leaves the laboratory

April 13, 2026
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...

How to solve a problem like implementing Electronic Lab Notebooks

February 22, 2026
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...

Microscopes to market: Exporting for innovation

February 2, 2026
Lab and life science innovators often lack the knowledge and resources to expand into foreign markets. That’s where UK Export Finance could make a difference, says Tim Reid.

Creating a digitally enabled, automated R&D environment

February 2, 2026
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.

Sounding cocci-ed

January 11, 2026
Broadcasters have a duty to promote science but when they do, it helps to get the details right, cautions Professor Brian J Ford.

Stars present and future

January 5, 2026
Another strong showing across the board in a hard-fought contest for the Lab Awards 2025.

Big Ask: Bruntwood’s Kath Mackay

December 22, 2025
Regional innovation ecosystems are crucial to ensure university spin-outs are retained and nurtured to play their part in the UK R&D sector, says Dr Kath Mackay, chief scientific officer at...

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