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NPL and government/industry partners launch quantum standards pilot

November 6, 2023
The National Physical Laboratory has launched a pilot scheme designed to ensure the UK maintains a leading role in establishing international standards for quantum science.

Experts reveal five data strategies to improve mental health waiting lists

November 6, 2023
Burgeoning mental health treatment lists must be tackled with the adoptions of five key data strategies, says a leading consultant hired to overhaul the current systems of two leading London...

New map of UK 20th century land use throws light on biodiversity change

October 30, 2023
The first map has been produced that can detail how nearly all of Britain’s lowland meadows and pasture land was lost to increasingly intensive farming in the last century.

CGI signs three year Royal Institution Christmas Lectures deal

October 29, 2023
The Royal Institution (Ri) has launched a three-year agreement with business consultancy CGI as the title partner for its annual Christmas Lectures and in support of the organisation’s wider charitable...

ABB and Imperial agree second decade of carbon capture collaboration

October 28, 2023
Technology giant ABB and Imperial College London have renewed their longstanding carbon capture joint venture for a second 10 year period.

First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker

October 23, 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imaging technique for early onset disease identification.

Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer

October 22, 2023
Advanced prostate cancer tumours can be prevented from hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help fuel their growth, re-sensitising the disease for treatment, suggests new research published in Nature.

Nikon photomicrography competition unveils more small world stunners

October 22, 2023
An image of the common by-product of diabetes that causes widespread sight loss affecting up to one in five sufferers has won the coveted first place in the 49th annual...

Turing helps connect swimming sperm with zebra stripes

October 15, 2023
What is the connection between swimming sperm and the spots on a leopard or the stripes on a zebra? A common mathematical basis say two Bristol University engineers.

Genomics summit speaker calls for radical thinking to aid millions of rare disease patients

October 15, 2023
Hope is not lost for the thousands of individuals dealing with rare or undiagnosed diseases, urged Neil Ward, Vice President and General Manager EMEA for PacBio talking at the Genomics...

Physicists say magnets offer room temperature quantum computing

October 15, 2023
While quantum computing technology may have the potential to solve complex problems at an unprecedented speed, it has long been hampered by a significant limitation— operating at sub-zero temperatures.

Lab Innovations urges visitors to access social platforms to enhance experience

October 7, 2023
A growing list of exhibitors are lining up for this year’s Lab innovations Show at the NEC Birmingham from 1-2 November.

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