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Pirbright vows inaugural lab biosciences conference will become annual fixture

Added: 3 Apr 2025

The Pirbright Institute says that the success of its first UK Lab Management Biosciences Conference…

Sustainable sensor guards plant health and feeds the soil

Added: 1 Apr 2025

It sounds like an environmentalist’s dream: technology that helps boost crop yields and then compos…

EPO: UK patent activity increases for third year but lags behind lead nations

Added: 27 Mar 2025

UK-based innovators have increased their patent filing activity in Europe for the third year in suc…

Transplanted microbiota offers hope in fight against cotton disease threat

Added: 18 Mar 2025

A disease that has devastated cotton crops worldwide is being tackled by a novel method of plant tr…

Space scientist Aderin-Pocock to present bicentenary Ri Christmas Lectures

Added: 17 Mar 2025

Space scientist and broadcaster Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock will present this year’s Royal Institutio…

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Reversible composite adhesives offer new possibilities in material science

Added: 14 Mar 2025

Researchers have created reversible composite adhesives using molecular entanglement, enabling enha…

Megalodon's true shape sheds light on aquatic gigantism

Added: 13 Mar 2025

A new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica has revealed fresh insights into the anatomy of…

Demand for EU critical chemicals law to ensure production of key molecules

Added: 13 Mar 2025

The EU must take action to protect production of nearly 20 key molecules deemed vital to industrial…

Universities’ trio share £0.3 million as 2025 Blavatnik science laureates

Added: 9 Mar 2025

Three university scientists have shared nearly a third of a million pounds in prize money as laurea…

Disappearing glaciers ‘now second largest contributor to sea level rise’

Added: 2 Mar 2025

Glacier loss in central Europe was nearly 40% during this century, suggests a study by Belgium’s Vr…

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Second Innovate UK regulatory science initiative: £4.7 million for 11 projects

Added: 22 Feb 2025

Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop r…

Bath seeks cleaner, greener water option

Added: 15 Feb 2025

Chemical engineers at the University of Bath have claimed a world first with the creation of a sust…

Mummies’ odour is a bouquet, not a curse

Added: 14 Feb 2025

They might be the stuff of horror movies but Egyptian mummies seem to have lasted the course where …

Funds of £13 mill boost AIME to make Birmingham membrane research hub

Added: 13 Feb 2025

Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received public and private funding of more than…

Alga ‘superfood’ comes with scaling up challenges, say scientists

Added: 7 Feb 2025

A common freshwater species of algae packed with nutritional benefits could be the next agricultura…

Liverpool team’s novel material promises boost to IoT storage capabilities

Added: 29 Jan 2025

University of Liverpool scientists have developed a novel material they claim may enable internet o…

Hydrogen hub invests £3million in groundbreaking net zero projects

Added: 20 Jan 2025

Funding valued at £3 million is to be shared among 10 research projects that aim to develop technol…

Strategy launched to futureproof UK role in materials innovation

Added: 13 Jan 2025

The long-awaited National Materials Innovation Strategy has launched with the claim that a committe…

Lab and fieldwork combine to ensure Beauty moth is a little less rare

Added: 6 Jan 2025

An experimental combination of captive breeding and habitat management has seen one of the UK’s rar…

Gravitational lensing and international teamwork unveils 44 unknown stars

Added: 6 Jan 2025

Physicists from across the world studying a distant galaxy in a multinational project have discover…