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Lab News roundup: multimillion investments and an RF breakthrough

Added: 18 Oct 2024

The University of Warwick is to invest £700 million in its West Midlands campus as part of its Conn…

Lab Innovations exhibitors to share on-stand expertise

Added: 13 Oct 2024

More than 4,000 attendees are expected to produce its largest-ever turnout for this year’s Lab Inno…

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 …

Vallance assumes key science ministerial role

Added: 7 Jul 2024

Former chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has joined the newly elected Labour administra…

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 …

Computational design enables uni duo’s materials science breakthrough

Added: 28 May 2024

A joint research team from two UK universities has employed computational design to develop new met…

Science mourns Nobel physicist Higgs

Added: 14 Apr 2024

Tributes been made worldwide to Peter Higgs, the Nobel-winning physicist who gave his name to the H…

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Surrey makes history with two pinches of salt

Added: 19 Feb 2024

Scientists at the University of Surrey are claiming a first with their observations on the effects …

Report underlines economic returns on public investment in science

Added: 11 Feb 2024

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council-commissioned research estimates that the org…

First ever Blavatnik award wins for Heriot-Watt and Innes centre as nine share honours

Added: 21 Jan 2024

Nine scientists have shared the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK and with it a …

Covid blow to Turing’s first year but positives too

Added: 8 Jan 2024

Britain’s replacement to the Erasmus Programme scholarships attained less than 60% of its target nu…

Physicists say magnets offer room temperature quantum computing

Added: 16 Oct 2023

While quantum computing technology may have the potential to solve complex problems at an unprecede…

Sheffield scientists aid steel city to lead sector’s transition to greener fuel

Added: 24 Sep 2023

Sheffield's place as a steel industry pioneer could receive a renewed boost as it prepares to lead …

Pistoia survey reveals AI is top tech investment for life sciences

Added: 20 Sep 2023

AI and Machine Learning will be the top tech investment for life science companies over the next tw…

Relief from scientific community greets Horizon Europe deal

Added: 8 Sep 2023

UK readmission to Horizon Europe and the Copernicus programme has been greeted with widespread reli…

100 Technicians share Hauksbee Award honours

Added: 4 Sep 2023

One hundred technicians working in a range of sectors and campaigning to raise their profession’s p…

Quantum go-‘slow’ allows first view of chemical process

Added: 29 Aug 2023

Sydney university researchers have scored a scientific first by employing a quantum computer to obs…

UEA coastal erosion project will test new tech’s predictive powers

Added: 13 Aug 2023

One of the counties most at risk from coastal erosion will provide the location for a technological…

Tax crackdown heralds new R&D relief headaches

Added: 13 Aug 2023

Science research and development tax relief applications will now face an extra hurdle thanks to ne…

NPL clock watchers hit the big time

Added: 6 Aug 2023

Britain’s National Physical Laboratory is celebrating a major achievement by its scientists with th…