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How to grow your own smart materials with live fermentation cultures
Added: 12 Jan 2021
Have you ever made your own soda bread or homemade yoghurt using a fermented 'starter culture'? Ima…
Science priorities agreed for 2024 lunar exploration
Added: 9 Dec 2020
Planetary processes and polar resource potential prioritised by lunar science team. Researchers pre…
Call for entries: Long COVID co-created science and art installation
Added: 3 Dec 2020
"The stories we tell matter." Relational Space
Are you willing to 'fearlessly explore' the impact …
ACHEMA live event postponed by nine months
Added: 18 Nov 2020
Further updates to our event horizon include a nine-month postponement of ACHEMA to April 2022, on …
Science and scientists held in high esteem across the globe
Added: 1 Oct 2020
As the world looks to scientists and the research and development process to bring new treatments a…
Plant-based supercapacitor delivers 900 x energy efficiency
Added: 11 Sep 2020
In a new study, researchers at Texas A&M University have described their novel plant-based energy s…
Advanced Engineering and Lab Innovations: visitors are in safe hands
Added: 31 Jul 2020
The UK Government has recently endorsed the reopening of conferences and exhibitions, releasing a s…
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission launched
Added: 31 Jul 2020
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of …
Affordable carbon-loving materials for reduced industrial emissions
Added: 28 Jul 2020
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tenne…
New antiviral technology supports reusable COVID-19 facemasks
Added: 25 Jun 2020
Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin and ITA RWTH Aachen, two of the most recognised academic …
Viable sodium-ion battery for sustainable energy storage
Added: 3 Jun 2020
Washington State University (WSU) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers have…
Photoactivated enzymatic oxygen transfer
Added: 28 May 2020
Researchers at the Universities of Münster (Germany) and Pavia (Italy) have now identified an enzym…
Biohybrid organic battery combines nanocomposite and bacteria
Added: 27 May 2020
Scientists from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a programmable, biohybrid ma…
WIN: A Tale of Seven Scientists
Sarah Lawton | Added: 11 May 2020
And a new philosophy of science
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Controlled spherical crystallography for targeted drug delivery
Added: 4 May 2020
Results from a research collaboration between researchers at Drexel’s College of Engineering and th…
Largest Synthetic Polysaccharide Assembled
Sarah Lawton | Added: 30 Apr 2020
Chemists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) have set a miles…
Business competition to support biotech
Added: 28 Feb 2020
Automated drug discovery company Arctoris has opened entries to it’s global business competition fo…
Carbon nanotubes grown on newsprint
Added: 26 Nov 2019
Your old copies of Lab News may still have some unexpected uses in the lab…
Ethiopian ponds too extreme even for microbes
Added: 25 Nov 2019
European biologists have confirmed the one place on Earth where conditions are too extreme for life…
Curiosity rover reveals oxygen spikes on Mars
Added: 15 Nov 2019
Readings from NASA’s Curiosity rover have revealed a surprising jump in oxygen in the Martian atmos…