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Tech challenges hinder mountain water data gathering
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Global failure to make better use of the latest monitoring technologies for high altitude water dat…
Jha and Rannard headline at Lab Innovations
Added: 31 Oct 2022
Economist science correspondent Alok Jha and leading academic and spin-out pioneer Dr Steve Rannard…
Nikon Small World hands awards first place to photogenic gecko image
Added: 16 Oct 2022
The three millimetre hand of a lizard embryo captured on camera in incredible detail has won first …
Global project to measure carbon footprint of clinical trials
Added: 16 Oct 2022
A new international initiative is developing a methodology to assess the respective environmental i…
Jacobs to support refurbishment of UK nuclear research laboratories
Added: 26 Sep 2022
US technical consultancy leaders Jacobs has won a £10 million contract to support National Nuclear …
Kidney charity unveils competition for dialysis innovation
Added: 11 Sep 2022
Just weeks after a pioneering dialysis technology won a prestigious engineering award, a leading UK…
CCDC grants aim to inspire tomorrow’s structural chemistry pioneers
Added: 11 Sep 2022
One of the world’s leading resources for structural chemistry, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Cent…
Liquid platinum catalyst offers sustainable solution for industry
Added: 27 Aug 2022
Australian scientists say they have found a way to employ platinum as a potentially scalable indust…
Synthetic polymers offer means to bypass gene editing for biocatalysis
Added: 20 Aug 2022
Scientists believe they have found a way to improve the efficiency of biocatalysis by avoiding the …
Biopharma lags in harnessing digitalisation suggests report
Added: 20 Aug 2022
A study of leading UK and Irish firms in the life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors reveals wide …
Sustainability may impact water security more than economics alone
Added: 20 Aug 2022
Equality of access among households to water supplies that are clean and plentiful may owe as much …
UWS’s third venture aims for fat returns from thin films
Added: 13 Aug 2022
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) is aiming to tap into the country’s reputation as a ma…
Warning that 1 in 3 adults will lack higher Covid antibody levels by next vaccination round
Added: 13 Aug 2022
A continued fall in the number of UK adults with higher level Covid antibody levels makes it likely…
Fera Science launches £1million laboratory for insect bioconversion in York
Added: 5 Aug 2022
Agri-food and environmental science services Fera Science Ltd has opened a £1 million specialist in…
Arboreal anural amphibians amaze academics
Added: 9 Jul 2022
A study intended to track tree-dwelling mammal species has uncovered a surprise occupant in the bra…
RSPB report criticises poor regulation of 150 pesticides
Added: 3 Jul 2022
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has attacked current risk assessments for chem…
Leading chemical and utility firms join RSC polymer sustainability task force
Added: 3 Jul 2022
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced four leading industry recruits have joined its S…
Cambridge’s ninth fund underlines place as UK uni spin-outs investment leader
Added: 26 Jun 2022
Cambridge University has cemented its standing as the UK leader for university spin-outs with the f…
It pays to be pretty if you’re a threatened fish
Added: 9 Jun 2022
Humans don’t only judge each other unfairly on looks, they do the same when it comes to fish specie…
REF results hammer home the importance of UK university-business collaboration
Added: 1 Jun 2022
The results of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) identify ‘world-leading’ and ‘interna…
