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US space science’s $3 million lift-off for school STEM booster

April 2, 2023
News
NASA has allocated more than $3 million (£2.42 million) to a number of higher education colleges across the USA and its dependent territories in order to boost opportunity in STEM...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Biology, Chemistry, Materials, Physics, Policy
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Let’s talk about sex, maybe

March 29, 2023
Insight
As the Natural History Museum hosts the first European display of Patagotitan, Brian J Ford revisits his theory, first published a decade ago in Laboratory News, that the clue to...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Forensics, Paleobiology, Physics, Zoology
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Colouring our view

March 20, 2023
Insight
The work of spectroscopy’s early pioneers continues to influence us today, says Brian J Ford, and in more ways than we might think.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Environment, Pharmaceutical, Physics
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Where there is darkness, let there be light…

March 12, 2023
Insight
Myths abound about the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights and have done for centuries. The recent opportunity to view them from the United Kingdom is a reminder that we are...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Comment And Analysis
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Lab Diary: Aurora provides lecture time enlightenment

March 7, 2023
Insight
Recent days have offered a rare opportunity to view the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights in the United Kingdom, with sightings observed even in South Wales and Southern East England.
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Comment And Analysis
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Investing in futures

March 5, 2023
Insight
It’s not only students who need to take placements seriously. Lab managers too must adopt a long-term view of their value, suggests George Barsted.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Northern Ireland deal appears to boost UK’s Horizon Europe hopes

March 1, 2023
News
Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s achievement of an agreed new Northern Ireland protocol with his European Union counterparts looks likely to pave the way for the UK’s continued involvement in the...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Engineering, Forensics, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Treasury opts for stealth to ‘announce’ takeback of £1.6 bill EU Horizon funds

February 23, 2023
News
Some £1.6 billion in funds allocated for scientific research has been taken back by the Treasury.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biotech, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Food & Bev, Forensics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Southampton University’s featherweight plans knockout blow for space debris

February 15, 2023
News
Southampton University researchers have successfully piloted the launch of a small scale plasma thruster intended to enable satellites to de-orbit safely.
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astrophysics, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental, Environment
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Weighing: the environmental impact

February 10, 2023
Insight
Labs are used to taking account of the effect of their processes on the environment but on a smaller scale it can affect them adversely too, as in the case...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Comment And Analysis, Engineering, Environment, Physics
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