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Fundamentally unintelligent
Added: 30 Sep 2024
AI didn’t invent job automation or fake images. Better to worry anyway about social media, urges Pr…
Combatting microplastics with microscopy
Added: 30 Sep 2024
Microscopy techniques are used to identify and characterise microplastics, but each has limitations…
Do research AI rules disadvantage non-native English scientists?
Added: 6 Sep 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of …
The hydrodynamics lab pioneering offshore renewable energy innovation
Added: 4 Sep 2024
The University of Manchester’s new hydrodynamics lab simulates the complexities of the ocean and ca…
The right moves
Added: 31 Aug 2024
Finding lab spaces is difficult but there’s more to consider after you secure one. Switching sites …
Game Theory: More or Less: Science & Nature Edition
Added: 19 Aug 2024
More or Less: Science & Nature Edition scores high on accuracy and fun.
Cold cure
Added: 19 Aug 2024
Power-intensive equipment such as fridges and freezers significantly impact energy conservation in …
Unveiling the ripple effect
Added: 12 Aug 2024
Dr Gen Li returns to the theme of how the war in Ukraine has impacted global clinical development a…
Focus on the foreign to life
Added: 12 Aug 2024
Xenobiotics – those chemical substances found within organisms but not naturally produced by them –…
Lab Babble: Alphabetti spaghetti
Added: 6 Aug 2024
The acronymitis virus has reached all corners of science. Russ Swan senses an opportunity…
The evolution of CRISPR cell line technology
Added: 6 Aug 2024
CRISPR technology’s initial applications were primarily focused on targeted genome editing, but its…
Shafted by progress
Added: 29 Jul 2024
There was little chance of Archimedes losing his screw; things are very different today, reflects M…
Nuclear arsenal
Added: 29 Jul 2024
Advances in benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance instrumentation have brought the benefits of NMR sp…
Past and present in synthesis
Added: 22 Jul 2024
Our guest speaker for the annual Laboratory News session at CHEMUK was Finlay Morrison. His well-re…
A matter of scale
Added: 22 Jul 2024
Funding support and infrastructure are needed to bring bio-based products and processes to market a…
New lab... but is it operationally ready?
Added: 7 Jul 2024
Lab space may be in short supply but don't neglect any element of the moving in process, urges Tes …
Faster to market
Added: 10 Jun 2024
AI capable of refining content and analysing data offers incremental gains in life sciences, argues…
Casting light on the matter
Added: 4 Jun 2024
Instrument manufacturer Waters Corporation has teamed up with the University of Surrey to provide s…
Future Labs Live 2024: Digital, automated, connected
Added: 4 Jun 2024
Basel braces for anything up to 3,000 innovators, industry leaders and practitioners attending the …
Lab Babble: Be damned and don’t publish
Added: 29 May 2024
Commercial priorities are killing the usefulness of web platforms and publishing, despairs Russ Swa…
