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Future-proof your workforce with a scientist degree apprenticeship

Added: 22 Apr 2025

Keep your business at the forefront of science, technology, engineering and manufacturing by using …

Demand for EU critical chemicals law to ensure production of key molecules

Added: 13 Mar 2025

The EU must take action to protect production of nearly 20 key molecules deemed vital to industrial…

Universities’ trio share £0.3 million as 2025 Blavatnik science laureates

Added: 9 Mar 2025

Three university scientists have shared nearly a third of a million pounds in prize money as laurea…

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Second Innovate UK regulatory science initiative: £4.7 million for 11 projects

Added: 22 Feb 2025

Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop r…

Clock ticking for nominations for RSC journals’ chemistry lectureships

Added: 22 Feb 2025

Time is running out to apply for lectureships offered through two of the Royal Society of Chemistry…

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 …

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…

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…

Access your free copy of the Laboratory News Christmas issue…

Added: 20 Dec 2024

Scientist and presenter Dr Chris van Tulleken explains why eating is like an arms race as he prepar…

New body aims to deliver on chemicals sector green pledge

Added: 8 Dec 2024

A new body designed to speed the transition to sustainable chemicals and materials in the UK has be…

Durham points the way for rapid delivery global surveys

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Durham university says it has achieved one of the highest ever response rates for a global, large s…

Airflow controller and monitors with integrated gas sensor promote lab safety

Added: 3 Dec 2024

Fume cupboard manufacturers now have access to a new airflow controller and monitors with integrate…

Scientists beat chefs to the skinniest spaghetti

Added: 25 Nov 2024

UCL scientists have ousted a renowned Sardinian pasta maker’s record for the thinnest pasta ever cr…

NAMs offer means for UK lead in chemical testing, say Government advisors

Added: 11 Nov 2024

Britain should aim to establish itself as a global leader in testing by harnessing advanced technol…

Life science leaders warn medicine’s Budget windfall must be supported by talent drive

Added: 11 Nov 2024

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget announcement of more than half a billion pounds-worth of investmen…

Finnish university on the circular economy CACE

Added: 20 Oct 2024

Applications are invited for a recently debuted Master’s programme in circular economy chemistry an…

AI, genes and proteins dominate Nobel 2024 prizes

Added: 11 Oct 2024

Pioneering work in AI, gene regulation and protein science underpinned this year’s Nobel Prize scie…

Laboratory contamination: The final defence mechanism

Europe to mark lab science’s key role again with dedicated day

Added: 30 Sep 2024

European Laboratory Day returns on 5 November to focus on the contribution of laboratory medicine p…

Aston AIME celebrates launch with collaborative science

Added: 22 Sep 2024

The new Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence has hosted its official academic launch at Aston Un…

Dundee MRC PPU wins £27 million-plus for groundbreaking disease and reagents research

Added: 8 Sep 2024

The University of Dundee’s renowned MRC PPU (Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation) unit has b…