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New facial detection system claims 10 times better image resolution
Added: 16 Feb 2025
Creators of a newly developed detection system say it provides accurate human facial detection over…
Bath seeks cleaner, greener water option
Added: 15 Feb 2025
Chemical engineers at the University of Bath have claimed a world first with the creation of a sust…
Mummies’ odour is a bouquet, not a curse
Added: 14 Feb 2025
They might be the stuff of horror movies but Egyptian mummies seem to have lasted the course where …
Funds of £13 mill boost AIME to make Birmingham membrane research hub
Added: 13 Feb 2025
Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received public and private funding of more than…
Wolfson grant enables purchase of world’s fastest scanning microscope
Added: 9 Feb 2025
Pioneering dementia research professor Roslyn Bill has welcomed the announcement of a £0.5 million …
Crafoord Prize laureates honoured for autoimmune disease work
Added: 8 Feb 2025
Darwin and Wallace, Newton and Leibniz, or Priestley, Scheele and Lavoisier – history provides nume…
Alga ‘superfood’ comes with scaling up challenges, say scientists
Added: 7 Feb 2025
A common freshwater species of algae packed with nutritional benefits could be the next agricultura…
AstraZeneca’s Speke U-turn deals blow to Government’s life sciences ambition
Added: 3 Feb 2025
AstraZeneca’s shock reversal of its plans to expand vaccine manufacturing at itsSpeke plant on Mers…
Liverpool team’s novel material promises boost to IoT storage capabilities
Added: 29 Jan 2025
University of Liverpool scientists have developed a novel material they claim may enable internet o…
Seven CERSI centres launched to speed regulatory innovation in UK medicine
Added: 28 Jan 2025
Innovate UK has announced seven Centres of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSIs…
Global survey reveals trust in scientists maintained
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Results from a vast new global survey suggest that trust in scientists remains relatively high acro…
Gallium-based bone cancer therapy paste secures £110k support
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Grant money of £110,000 has been awarded to help develop an injectable paste that could have the po…
Hadley Centre climate work ROI is 33 times Government’s expenditure
Added: 27 Jan 2025
Leading UK climate change research site the Hadley Centre Climate Programme (HCCP) provided a retur…
Breast cancer tops clinical studies for fourth year as overall trial attrition rates rise
Added: 21 Jan 2025
Breast cancer continues to be the world’s most studied disease in clinical trials, topping all cate…
Hydrogen hub invests £3million in groundbreaking net zero projects
Added: 20 Jan 2025
Funding valued at £3 million is to be shared among 10 research projects that aim to develop technol…
Unilever and Pioneer launch food and drink incubator lab at Colworth
Added: 20 Jan 2025
Unilever and Pioneer Group are to collaborate on a new state-of-the-art food and drink incubator th…
Composite product offers hope for neurodegenerative conditions, claim developers
Added: 13 Jan 2025
A novel composite material created by two UK universities has the potential to provide new treatmen…
Horizon based scheme invests €3.2 million in boosting Europe’s quantum research
Added: 13 Jan 2025
A four year project intended to boost Europe’s role in quantum research has secured €3.2 million fr…
Strategy launched to futureproof UK role in materials innovation
Added: 13 Jan 2025
The long-awaited National Materials Innovation Strategy has launched with the claim that a committe…
Gravitational lensing and international teamwork unveils 44 unknown stars
Added: 6 Jan 2025
Physicists from across the world studying a distant galaxy in a multinational project have discover…
