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Motor mimicry could offer insight into muscle conditions say researchers

March 21, 2026
Mechanical motors created to mimic molecules that enable human muscles to contract could eventually offer new insight into ageing and conditions including muscular dystrophy, say scientists. Researchers working at the...
Woman wearing Cross Sense smart specs, winners of the Longitude dementia innovation award.

Cross Sense smart specs win Longitude dementia award £1mill grand prize

March 21, 2026
CrossSense, the smart glasses-based AI assistant designed to help early stage dementia sufferers with daily life tasks, has won the Longitude Prize’s long awaited grand award. The final and largest...

Collaborators apply intelligence to create smart telescopes

March 12, 2026
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...

NMRC site provides first ‘terrestrial anchor’ for UK space manufacturing

March 4, 2026
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.

Bath combines biology and chemistry to thwart cancer drivers

March 4, 2026
University of Bath researchers are harnessing bacteria to develop millions of potential drug molecules inside living cells, in order to speed therapy development to combat hard-to-treat cancers.

UK built detector components arrive in US for flagship neutrino experiment

March 4, 2026
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.

Our new edition: PhDs, biosimilars, Future Lab, ELN and more…

February 14, 2026
Is the PhD still a good investment for a STEM career? The new edition of Laboratory News offers a personal perspective on the value of the research qualification in changing...

AI positive people may be more at risk of manipulation claims report

February 13, 2026
People with a positive view of AI may be at higher risk of being misled by AI tools, claims a new report.

Photonics pioneer Brongersma wins IET’s 2026 Harvey award

January 18, 2026
Stanford University professor Mark Brongersma has won the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) most prestigious award, the A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize.

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