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Carbon nanotubes grown on newsprint
Added: 26 Nov 2019
Your old copies of Lab News may still have some unexpected uses in the lab…
Ultra-fine particles linked to brain cancer
Added: 14 Nov 2019
Air pollution nanoparticles have been linked to brain cancer for the first time.
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…
Nanolaser functions inside living human tissue
Added: 26 Sep 2019
A US team has developed a nanolaser that can operate in confined spaces such as quantum circuits, m…
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, …
Simple, beautiful, classic: MIT creates blackest black material
Added: 16 Sep 2019
Engineers have claimed a new record for the blackest material ever created.
Scalable membrane could filter greenhouse gases
Added: 11 Sep 2019
A new membrane filtration could be used to separate greenhouse gases from waste emissions on an ind…
$5.8M for renewable photocatalytic converter
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Houston-based plasmonics company Syzygy has raised $5.8 million to develop its eco-friendly photoca…
Scaled-down reactor turns greenhouse gas into fuel
Added: 4 Sep 2019
A newly-developed reactor containing a 2D catalyst is able to covert atmospheric CO2 into pure liqu…
International research projects get £3.6M
Added: 29 Aug 2019
Research England has divvied up £3.6 million for eight research institutions in the UK to help fund…
Hogweed turned into carbon material for electrodes
Added: 29 Aug 2019
Hogweed is being put to use to manufacture electrodes for supercapacitors.
2D stack provides thermal isolation in electronics
Added: 22 Aug 2019
An insulator only 10 atoms deep could significantly reduce heat emissions in electronic devices whi…
Leeds creates thinnest 2D gold
Added: 8 Aug 2019
University of Leeds scientists have claimed first fabrication of freestanding 2D gold with a sub‐na…
3D-printed collagen forms functioning heart parts
Added: 6 Aug 2019
A new bioprinting method allows anyone to 3D-print functioning components of the human heart.
Agar Scientific buys London Resin Company
Added: 2 Aug 2019
Laboratory equipment supplier Agar Scientific has acquired London Resin Company for an undisclosed …
Eye-controlled contact lenses
Added: 29 Jul 2019
Biomechanical engineers have created a robotic lens that allows the wearer to focus on an image thr…
