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Honing in on the chemical lab

April 15, 2024
Insight
This year’s version of the CHEMUK show is the largest ever but it also has an enhanced focus on the chemical laboratory, which has its dedicated zone and programme.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Biotech, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Aston and allies open doctoral centre for next generation greenhouse gas leaders

March 18, 2024
News
Aston University is to host a doctoral training centre to train a new generation of scientists to head the implementation of the UK’s net zero targets.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Botany, Chemical Engineering, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Environment, Green Chemistry, Health & Safety, Materials Science
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Looking under the hood of AI

January 16, 2024
Insight
Royal Institution lecturer Professor Mike Wooldridge expands on the scientific and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence, its potential benefits and, of course, those possible pitfalls.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Interviews, Materials, Policy
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Hearing’s the cue for wearing

January 8, 2024
Insight
Feedback matters for any medical technology developer. When it comes to wearable devices, listening is essential, Lucy Jung advises.
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Medical/Health, Physics
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Scents-ibly sustainable

January 8, 2024
Insight
Rather than plundering scarce natural resources, Glasgow University scientists Hua Wang and Sofia Sandalli are looking to the lab for a more ethical approach to perfume production.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment
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Rudolph the blue-eyed reindeer, he can see the lichen glows…

December 18, 2023
News
Rudolph’s red nose may be Christmas fiction but reindeer really do appear to possess another colourful facial feature to aid navigation.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Botany, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Genetics, Zoology
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Bath puts safer water on the map via new OASIS

November 12, 2023
News
A portable water quality monitor developed by University of Bath students aims to enable rapid detection and mapping of safe water sources for communities across the globe.
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental
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Building scientific communities

November 6, 2023
Insight
The pandemic delivered a temporary setback to the face-to-face conference but spurred interest in how social media and other platforms can build networks that increase rather than restrict opportunities for...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Physics, Policy
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ABB and Imperial agree second decade of carbon capture collaboration

October 28, 2023
News
Technology giant ABB and Imperial College London have renewed their longstanding carbon capture joint venture for a second 10 year period.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Health & Safety, Policy
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Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer

October 22, 2023
News
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.
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Cell Biology, Health, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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The root of it

October 2, 2023
Insight
Seaweed is an intrinsic part of our existence on this planet and it could just be the very thing that saves it too, argues Vincent Doumeizel. That’s why our perceptions...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Environmental, Food & Bev, Food Science, Medical/Health
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Making a meal of it

September 18, 2023
Insight
Insect farming’s potential value to the future of food supply has been well documented. As ever, the challenge, says Eliaou Sellem, is scaling up from laboratory to industry.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Food & Bev
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Informed consent: Maximising compliance and minimising risk

September 12, 2023
Insight
While the principle of participant consent is better appreciated in clinical research today than in previous decades, the opportunities for error remain considerable. However, a combination of digital technologies and...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Health & Safety, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Funding for vaccine to tackle cause of UK pig herds’ major respiratory threat

September 9, 2023
News
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council are funding the Royal Veterinary College efforts to develop vaccines to tackle the most...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Biotech, Cell Biology, Food & Bev, Health, Microbiology, Pathology, Pharmaceutical, Policy, Zoology
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Big Ask: Pushing the boundaries

July 10, 2023
Insight
Terahertz technology may be in its relative infancy but fortunately the scientist leading the National Physical Laboratory's pioneering work, Dr Mira Naftaly boasts more than two decades experience in this...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Earth & Environmental, Environment, Interviews, Nanotech, Pharmaceutical, Physics
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Pines and paper alleviate science’s sustainable pain killer headache

July 8, 2023
News
Bath University's Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability has revealed a sustainable alternative to the use of crude oil for producing pain killers including paracetamol and ibuprofen.
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Environment, Environmental, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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RSC diversity programme numbers soar

July 3, 2023
News
The Royal Society of Chemistry has recorded a 38% rise in the number of students on its programme to increase diversity in the chemical sciences.
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmaceutical, Policy
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Embrace the new

June 26, 2023
Insight
Its name harks back to a bygone era, but the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is at the forefront of enabling medical researchers and institutions to realise the...
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Comment And Analysis, Engineering, Health, Medical/Health, Physics, Policy
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Royal Assent opens door to gene edited food in UK 

March 28, 2023
News
The granting of Royal Assent for the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act has finally opened the door for the commercial development of gene-edited food in England.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Botany, Cell Biology, Environment, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage, Food and Drink, Food Science, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Policy, Proteomics & Genomics
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Sustainably feeding the world with genomics-driven agriculture

March 5, 2023
Insight
As cell meat manufacture develops in the lab, science is increasingly impacting arable farming in the field. Agrigenomics seeks to transition production to counter climate and population pressures, outlines Neil...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Cell Biology, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage, Food and Drink, Food Science, Genetics, Policy
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