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In the public arena

August 4, 2025
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Research in the laboratory or out in the field is essential, but communicating with public audiences is a vital part of being a scientist too, argues the Royal Institution’s Katherine...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Materials, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Study reveals the eye is the window to the heart

August 2, 2025
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Routine eye scans could help identify major coronary illness up to a decade early, concludes research supported by two leading health organisations.
Life Sciences
Comment And Analysis, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Policy
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The time is now

July 29, 2025
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It’s no secret that the United States is losing talented scientists but why aren’t the UK and Europe doing more to take advantage of the opportunity, demands Rafael E Carazo...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Materials, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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Speaking scientific truth to power

July 22, 2025
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Each year, one early career chemical or process engineer swaps the lab bench for the corridors of Westminster, not to become a politician, but to help inform them.
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Engineering, Policy
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Turning to gold

July 21, 2025
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Winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s biennial prize for materials engineering Graham Hutchings shares his personal research journey, when a career-long ‘love affair’ with gold led to pioneering advances...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Policy
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A biotech boost for Scotland

July 21, 2025
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Scotland’s first open-access 300-litre fermenter promises to provide a major boost for the country’s bioeconomy, explains IBioIC’s Neil Renault.
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Comment And Analysis
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Let Grok take over your life…

July 4, 2025
Insight
Others may quail at the onward march of AI but, in one respect at least, professor Brian J Ford has no hesitation endorsing its benefits.
Physics & Engineering
Comment And Analysis, Computer Science
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Rising demand, shrinking footprint

July 3, 2025
Insight
In a prelude to the Lab Innovations show, Mark Withers considers one of the most pressing issues for the laboratory sector – the critical shortage of spaces and how to...
Uncategorised
Comment And Analysis
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It’s Lego, but not as we know it

June 7, 2025
Insight
Two worlds collide, to Russ Swan’s delight.
Chemistry, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Forensics, Materials, Materials Science, Pharmaceutical, Physics
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3D printing in the lab

June 7, 2025
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The biomedical sector is emerging as a key arena for 3D printing technologies, enabling researchers to access new tools to tackle design challenges, explains Ricky Wildman.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology
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On point for delivery

June 1, 2025
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Do microneedles represent the future in the field of drug delivery? Rachel Sully argues for the benefits they offer in terms of ease of administration, effective sterilisation and avoidance of...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Gut reaction

June 1, 2025
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Public interest in the significance of the microbiome has been increasing but until now testing has not always been sufficiently rigorous, says Jeremy Wilkinson.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Health, Immunology, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical
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