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Guestbook: Formula for our future
Added: 15 May 2023
Efforts by the energy intensive chemicals industry to promote a greener future will impact greatly …
Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Telling it like it is
Added: 9 May 2023
How to temper the urge to make projects succeed at the expense of sustainability? It’s all in the n…
Health in the round
Added: 2 May 2023
In the second of our features on key talks from the recent Lab Innovations’ My Green Lab/Laboratory…
Keener on greener
Added: 27 Mar 2023
Sustainability was the core of Lab Innovations’ MyGreenLab/Laboratory News seminar series. In the f…
Colouring our view
Added: 20 Mar 2023
The work of spectroscopy’s early pioneers continues to influence us today, says Brian J Ford, and i…
Sustainably feeding the world with genomics-driven agriculture
Added: 5 Mar 2023
As cell meat manufacture develops in the lab, science is increasingly impacting arable farming in t…
From petri dish to dinner plate
Added: 27 Feb 2023
Lab grown meat is developing into a multibillion pound industry but scaling up has challenges, expl…
Weighing: the environmental impact
Added: 10 Feb 2023
Labs are used to taking account of the effect of their processes on the environment but on a smalle…
Help us to open the lab to talent and disability
Added: 8 Feb 2023
Katherine Deane explains how your input can ensure the Access All Areas project enables science to …
Scientific nesting places
Added: 6 Feb 2023
If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does hav…
A guarantee of security?
Added: 6 Feb 2023
One of Europe’s leading microbiologists wants EU legislators to follow the UK’s lead and relax the …
Lowering the barriers to nitrate analysis
Added: 9 Jan 2023
Nitrogen pollution receives less environmental attention than it has merited, says Calum Preece, bu…
The Amazon is vital to the global ecosystem but it is nobody’s ‘lung’
Added: 17 Dec 2022
The rainforest makes a crucial contribution, says Brian J Ford but it does not produce the oxygen w…
Can you use a large electron microscope next to a freight train?
Added: 5 Dec 2022
Thomas E Davies describes the challenges of operating highly sensitive equipment in a city environm…
Lab Babble: The Modern Prometheus
Added: 28 Nov 2022
Not content with streamlining all scientific research, Russ Swan now offers a blueprint for human e…
Sustainability’s other R-words
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Environmental practice has its own version of the Three Rs, says Colin Shandley, so why stop at ‘Re…
The final frontier
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Sustainability goals in science must include one untilrecently overlooked issue: lab space and the …
Dystopia calling…
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Dr Matthew Partridge has seen the 2050 future and it works, even if we no longer understand why.
…The agile response
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Sustainable lab practice allied to uncompromising quality and safety standards are vital for the op…
View from the business end
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Tim Doggett explains the importance of sustainability for modern laboratories in terms of the wider…