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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
Written by Eric Scerri
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…
Rahko raises £1.3M for quantum chemistry simulation
Added: 18 Oct 2019
UCL spin-out Rahko has raised £1.3 million in seed funding to develop its machine learning-powered …
Wellcome Trust on the hunt for best public engagement
Added: 16 Oct 2019
The Wellcome Trust has launched an initiative to find the best examples of public engagement projec…
ESA opens calls for ISS lab upgrade
Added: 14 Oct 2019
The European Space Agency is looking for industry help to upgrade the Columbus laboratory aboard th…
Lithium-ion researchers win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Added: 9 Oct 2019
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three researchers for their work on the developmen…
Deep Carbon Observatory quantifies carbon emissions
Added: 8 Oct 2019
Humanity’s annual carbon emissions are between 40 to 100 times greater than all volcanic emissions,…
SERC experiments show CO2 stunts wetlands
Added: 27 Sep 2019
While CO2 is essential for plant growth, excessive CO2 in the atmosphere is stunting growth in mars…
Procarta awarded £7.4M for microbial treatment
Added: 23 Sep 2019
Biotechnology company Procarta Biosystems will receive up to £7.4 million to develop a new class of…
PM reintroduces graduate visa
Added: 18 Sep 2019
A new work visa introduced by Boris Johnson’s government will allow international science students …
US environmental agency to end animal testing by 2035
Added: 18 Sep 2019
The US Environmental Protection Agency will phase out animal testing of chemical products by 2035, …
