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Game Theory: Ocean Pods
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Leicestershire-based Molinarius Games has a water focus. So how does its Ocean Pods board game meas…
Cycling to zero
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Images of workplace pollution and waste usually focus on heavy industry but ignore the sizeable con…
Look beyond the Horizon
Added: 3 Aug 2023
While many scientists are keen to see the UK back in the Horizon Europe programme, Professor Brian …
New tools for an old enemy
Added: 30 Jul 2023
It’s 30 years since the World Health Organisation identified the resurgence of tuberculosis as a gl…
Stopping the rot
Added: 23 Jul 2023
The global cold chain is functioning but often ineptly, with consequences for food and vaccine supp…
Hyper-space
Added: 16 Jul 2023
There’s a temptation in space science to bill every act of participation as a success, whatever the…
Lab Babble: Today’s fact, tomorrow’s retract
Added: 10 Jul 2023
You can withdraw a discredited paper, but the long tail of citations lingers on and on, cautions Ru…
Embrace the new
Added: 26 Jun 2023
Its name harks back to a bygone era, but the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is at the …
Multi-tasked, ultrafast and kinder
Added: 26 Jun 2023
Ongoing technological advances to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) are contributing to…
Guestbook: Formula for our future
Added: 15 May 2023
Efforts by the energy intensive chemicals industry to promote a greener future will impact greatly …
The industrial lab: at line or end of line?
Added: 15 May 2023
Sustainability, market pressures and tech innovation are impacting the chemicals and materials sect…
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…
Synthetic affinity reagents: new possibilities for diagnostics
Added: 24 Apr 2023
Fast and effective diagnostic testing is key to disease management but a challenge for antibody-bas…
CHEMUK 2023 Preview: Get in the zone
Added: 20 Apr 2023
CHEMUK is back with hundreds of exhibitors and speakers and this year for the first time it will ha…
Shared excellence
Added: 17 Apr 2023
The FAIRE grants scheme provides opportunity for researchers in 80 countries to publish their work …
Collaboration on life sciences – do we need the UK?
Added: 17 Apr 2023
Undoubtedly, yes, says Jan Wauters. The benefits to Britain and Europe are too great, he argues, an…
‘Life in the clouds’
Added: 3 Apr 2023
The growth of collaborative work and reliance on contract research organisations plus unprecedented…
Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Not wanted – bot with GSOH
Added: 27 Mar 2023
Reinforced learning won’t make ChatGPT a lab competitor for Matthew Partridge. Not until it masters…
Light shined like a neon show
Added: 12 Mar 2023
Good quality visuals help convey information in research papers. Contrary to what many scientists s…