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Game Theory: Shallow Sea – Great Barrier Reef

July 5, 2026
Insight
Our duo Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner deep dive into Shallow Sea – Great Barrier Reef. WHAT IS SHALLOW SEA? The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest...
Earth & Environmental
biodiversity, Great Barrier Reef
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Teaching the rules: Sample handling in class

July 5, 2026
Insight
Treat school laboratories seriously, they’re the ultimate stress test environment for products and procedures and for shaping behaviours, urges Isabel Murphy. Even lab managers and suppliers can learn something. From...
Life Sciences
laboratory education, Sample integrity
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Lab-or-a-tol-o-gy: Software, soft soap

June 29, 2026
Insight
Over promising systems sellers can be the bane of the science researcher’s life, admits Matthew Partridge. There is an English idiom, ‘call a spade a spade’ which if you’ve not...
Life Sciences
AI, ELN, laboratory informatics, LIMS
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Designing for results: How layout ensures accuracy

June 29, 2026
Insight
With the pressure to generate results, optimise workflows and meet deadlines, sample integrity is taken for granted… until something goes wrong. Yet what happens around the bench in terms of...
Life Sciences
laboratory design, Sample integrity
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Harness your greatest fan

June 24, 2026
Insight
Follow the news and there’s much confusion about keeping cool. Today’s summary on the BBC recommends drawing your curtains and staying indoors, but didn’t mention the best way to keep...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Biology, climate, Comment, temperature regulation
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A disparity born of oversight: recognising women in science

June 23, 2026
Insight
Dr Bernice Wright pays tribute to some of the most impactful women in the life sciences, and the vital role they continue to play … Women have long shaped the...
Chemistry, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Comment, Nobel prize, Women in science
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Was Clarkson’s cow killed for nothing?

June 20, 2026
Insight
Did you watch Clarkson’s Farm the other evening? That poor cow Pepper was culled after routine tuberculosis tests. Clarkson was furious, and the nation was up in arms, writes professor...
Life Sciences, Earth & Environmental
Biology, Comment, Vaccines
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Show Preview: Insider view from the outside

June 14, 2026
Insight
The Lab Facilities Design & Development Summit Europe places the focus clearly on the built environment with a range of pertinent case studies. In its own words it is “the...
Physics & Engineering
Events, lab facilities, laboratory design
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Carbon alternatives: A matter of scale

June 14, 2026
Insight
The quest to replace fossil fuels is yet another example of the gap between lab experimentation and industrial production at scale, says David Bott. It’s well known that the single-use...
Chemistry
carbon capture, decarbonisation, sustainable chemistry
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How the lab became a power in the boardroom

June 7, 2026
Insight
In the mining industry, science isn’t a passive instrument. Its findings drive commercial decision-making, explains Greg Rankin. With commodity prices rising across the mining sector, from gold to strategically critical...
Physics & Engineering
earth sciences, Engineering, mining, Sample integrity
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Clinical overhaul: the opportunities and challenges for would-be suppliers

May 25, 2026
Insight
The UK’s overhaul of clinical trial regulations is a potential boon for the medical technology industry but companies need to ensure their own digital adaptations are sufficient to provide them...
Life Sciences
Clincial trials, Medtech, Policy, Regulatory and compliance, Suppliers
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Ebola and the interplay of research incentives and finance

May 18, 2026
Insight
We all recognise this picture. It is the Ebola virus, of course. What you likely won’t realise is that it was taken 50 years ago, writes Brian J Ford. The...
Life Sciences
Comment, Ebola virus, Infectious disease, Policy
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