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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…

Your balance will impact the quality of your measurements and productivity of your process

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…