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Horizon based scheme invests €3.2 million in boosting Europe’s quantum research

January 13, 2025
A four year project intended to boost Europe’s role in quantum research has secured €3.2 million from Horizon Europe.

Composite product offers hope for neurodegenerative conditions, claim developers

January 13, 2025
A novel composite material created by two UK universities has the potential to provide new treatments for nervous system and neurodegenerative damage, say researchers.

Imperial’s smart heart reading T-shirt nets £340k

January 6, 2025
Imperial College London researchers have secured more than a third of a million pounds to enable them to develop an AI t-shirt that can detect inherited heart rhythm conditions.

Lab and fieldwork combine to ensure Beauty moth is a little less rare

January 6, 2025
An experimental combination of captive breeding and habitat management has seen one of the UK’s rarest moth species more than double its numbers at a key population site.

Gravitational lensing and international teamwork unveils 44 unknown stars

January 6, 2025
Physicists from across the world studying a distant galaxy in a multinational project have discovered more than 40 previously undetected stars.

Access your free copy of the Laboratory News Christmas issue…

December 20, 2024
Scientist and presenter Dr Chris van Tulleken explains why eating is like an arms race as he prepares to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, while we present this year’s...

Sea-savvy tech provides longest ever study of destructive water currents

December 16, 2024
Durham University scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in marine geoscience, using seabed seismographics to study the world’s strongest turbidity currents as they occur in one of the longest submarine...

Organ on a chip tracks gut-to-brain toxins for Parkinson’s clues

December 16, 2024
Researchers have developed a new multiple organ-on-chip system to help study how neurotoxins move from the gut to the brain.

Stick-on monitor offers cheap and precise warning system for critical conditions, say researchers

December 16, 2024
A novel breathing monitor created by university and commercial partners is capable of providing a low cost, accurate early warning system for a range of critical conditions, claim its inventors.

Austria invests c€4 million in cognitive study of polarisation and misinformation

December 8, 2024
Austria’s leading funding body for research is investing nearly €4 million in a multi-disciplinary project aimed at tackling global problems around political polarisation and human psychology.

British Heart Foundation Heart Hero Awards highlight breakthrough pioneers

December 8, 2024
Cardiovascular research pioneer professor Adam Greenstein has been awarded the prestigious Research Story of the Year prize for devising a potential new approach to treating vascular dementia at the British...

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