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PrISMa creators aim to bridge net zero innovation’s valley of death
Added: 22 Jul 2024
It’s the phrase that encapsulates the perennial challenge of transitioning a successful laboratory …
Polystyrene recycling pioneers claim energy efficiency and cost effectiveness
Added: 28 May 2024
Creators of a new process claim that it has the potential to boost polystyrene recycling massively …
Aston and allies open doctoral centre for next generation greenhouse gas leaders
Added: 18 Mar 2024
Aston University is to host a doctoral training centre to train a new generation of scientists to h…
Flower power inspires drug cell breakthrough
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Bath university scientists have borrowed from nature to develop more stable versions of proteins an…
Digital twins to link Metaverse to real-world decarbonisation towards NetZero
Added: 1 Apr 2022
Digital Twins are forecast to form the essential building blocks of a Metaverse which connects the …
New £1.5m unit to tackle racial inequalities in science
Added: 24 Mar 2022
The Royal Society of Chemistry has established a Race & Ethnicity Unit to break down barriers to eq…
Bacteria upcycle carbon waste into valuable chemicals
Added: 7 Mar 2022
Researchers engineered a strain of bacteria to break down carbon dioxide (CO2), converting it into …
Renewable energy's hybrid fuel blue hydrogen can help protect the climate
Added: 2 Dec 2021
Blue hydrogen - a renewable fuel hybrid technology - can play a positive role in the energy transit…
New microscope uses photonics to gain insights into ‘superbugs’
Added: 25 Nov 2021
Scientists are building a new super-resolution microscope that uses laser light to study the inner …
UK demonstrates its first 'green' high-powered rocket engine
Added: 22 Nov 2021
A UK nuclear fusion company based in Bletchley, has just developed and tested its first launch capa…
Chemistry breakthrough leads way to more sustainable pharmaceuticals
Added: 22 Nov 2021
Chemistry researchers at the University of Bath have developed a new method using blue light to cre…
The plastics industry must go under the knife for a more sustainable future
Added: 22 Nov 2021
After 50 years of carefree consumption, urgent transformation is needed to negate large-scale green…
Greening the lab: first net zero mass spectrometer launched
Added: 5 Oct 2021
As part of an initiative to permanently remove CO₂ emissions associated with the manufacture and su…
Visitor registration has now opened for CHEMUK 2021
Added: 5 Aug 2021
Visitor registration has now opened for CHEMUK 2021, the UK chemical industries national expo, bein…
Real milk, real cheese - no cows required
Added: 8 Jul 2021
Will 'animal-free' AI driven processing replace 'plant-based' dairy products? An Israeli start-up i…
New dipping solution turns the whole fish into valuable food
Added: 16 Jun 2021
When herring are filleted, more than half their weight becomes a low-value ‘side stream’ that never…
SoyFilm: Is this the end of fossil fuel single-use plastics?
Added: 10 Jun 2021
At last! A sustainable, scalable and 100 percent natural plant protein-based polymer that functions…
UKRI funding to bring the public into the heart of five research projects
Added: 27 May 2021
UK Research and Innovation is encouraging people from across the UK to actively contribute to five …
Replacing plastics in fibre-based packaging for full recycling
Added: 10 May 2021
New research highlights biodigestible barrier polymers to replace plastics and non-repulpable lamin…
Pre-programmed degradation makes 'biodegradable' plastics truly compostable
Added: 22 Apr 2021
By embedding polymer-eating enzymes in plastic, researchers have found a way to make previously tri…
