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Churchill grant now open for science

May 4, 2018
The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has this year included science, technology and engineering as topics to be supported with overseas research grants available to all UK citizens.These are travel grants...

Tick-tock, tick-tock

May 3, 2018
How long, do you think, we will be doing science? It is now impossible to ignore the fact that the clock must be ticking down.I should stress, I think empirical...

Are scientists part of the plastic problem?

April 18, 2018
Single-use consumables are rapidly becoming the norm in many laboratories _– so how are we to address a tsunami of plastic lab waste? A snowy find has given Russ Swan...

A potent analytical force

April 13, 2018
Pharma companies need more information on drug candidates at an earlier phase in the process than ever before, and analytical chemists are turning to quantitative Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (qNMR) spectrometry...

An immigration system that supports science

April 9, 2018
In recent months, UK employers have encountered issues with recruiting staff from outside of the EU. The main route of recruitment of skilled individuals from outside the EU is on...

Cliche and chemical weapons

April 6, 2018
As the sorry tale of a former Russian double agent and his daughter escalates, once again chemistry is dragged into the gutter of war.It may not have come to that...

Mobile chemical waste disposal

April 6, 2018
Resource management company Veolia has launched a chemical management service designed to provide a mobile solution for laboratory chemical waste.Specifically designed to address the need for a flexible on site...

The sense of touch is incredibly important

April 5, 2018
Incredible work on the neurobiology of touch means we are on the road to rewiring the sense in paralyzed patients. Here are some stats showing how important touch can be…

Can we really automate paper writing?

April 5, 2018
Every scientist has to adhere to the publish-or-perish maxim to some extent – the pressure to write papers is huge, and growing. Can automated writing really help prepare manuscripts?   Scientist’s...

On the age-old question of polishing a turd…

March 27, 2018
You can’t, the saying goes, polish a turd. Possibly not – but you can increase the market value of said defecatory effusion so as to render a polish unnecessary.Let us...

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