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(Almost) one hundred and eighty!
Added: 24 Mar 2024
Time was when three scientific disciplines sufficed, says Russ Swan. They’ve multiplied, to say the…
Identity crisis?
Added: 18 Mar 2024
When the Royal Society of Chemistry began to tackle the barriers to disabled entrants to the profes…
The far horizon
Added: 11 Mar 2024
Innovate UK has gone public this year with the research for its list of the top 50 emerging technol…
Unravelling the secrets of RNA
Added: 4 Mar 2024
Advancing scientific knowledge of plant structures not only improves crop yields but also helps tre…
Farm to gutter: Genomic surveillance to track AMR
Added: 4 Mar 2024
Governments are waking up to the dangers presented by antimicrobial resistance but the focus on cli…
Stat… fact… friction?
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Do the figures speak for themselves? Rarely, warns Russ Swan.
Million dollar beep
Added: 19 Feb 2024
Digital hackers may be the bigger threat but don’t overlook the need for safeguards against more co…
Keep it clean
Added: 5 Feb 2024
Chemical disinfectants are hazardous to lab staff, and if discharged into the wastewater, pose a he…
Starry, starry night
Added: 5 Feb 2024
After just three years, the Lab Awards has come of age with a standalone event, a record number of …
A global leg-up
Added: 29 Jan 2024
Returning to the theme of sustainable reuse, Colin Shandley offers a reminder that the effect goes …
Where the action is
Added: 29 Jan 2024
As demand for lab space increasingly outstrips supply, alternatives are being sought to science par…
On the front line
Added: 22 Jan 2024
Increasing digitalisation creates a weapon for hackers, criminals and hostile states to employ far …
Bacteriophage therapies: exciting but not new
Added: 18 Jan 2024
Recent interest in this area of antibacterial treatments neglects the fact it has a substantial his…
Community helps overcome challenges of disability in science
Added: 7 Dec 2023
Chantelle Minchin was forced by illness to drop out of her previous university course and decided t…
One indivisible truth?
Added: 27 Nov 2023
The European Medicines Agency’s vision of a single source of truth for clinical trial information f…
Shooting the lab
Added: 20 Nov 2023
If a picture tells a thousand words, a short video can do still more in the social media age. Autho…
Sound of the City
Added: 14 Nov 2023
Government hopes to drive UK growth through the life sciences depend upon commercial as well as pub…
Breaking down a breakup
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The seas around Florida provided the opportunity to analyse the movement of the Earth’s crust durin…
Building scientific communities
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The pandemic delivered a temporary setback to the face-to-face conference but spurred interest in h…
Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Drilling down – or boring?
Added: 30 Oct 2023
If you find a subject dull, time to shoot the messenger, says Matthew Partridge.
