April 13, 2026

The orbital laboratory is evolving into something more ambitious, a controlled industrial environment for producing next-generation materials, explains Ed Smith and Andrew Griffiths. For decades, crystalline research in space has been an invaluable...

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March 4, 2026

Work has finished on what will be the UK’s first in-space manufacturing hub, the new National Microgravity Research Centre (NMRC) based in South Wales.

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February 22, 2026

Nature recovery programme Cumbria Connect has received funding from a key conservation group for its research investigating the unexplained role played by underground fungal networks in woodland creation.

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Botany, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Pathology, Policy, Soil Science

January 18, 2026

Organisers of the recent Lab Innovations trade show at Birmingham NEC have claimed 2025 was their most successful event to date.

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December 22, 2025

Manchester university will lead a collaborative project to pioneer technology for long-term energy storage.

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December 4, 2025

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures mark two centuries of breaking barriers between science and the public. This year's presenter, Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, will focus on endeavours to overcome the boundaries...

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December 1, 2025

Celebrating Game Theory's 40th appearance, Ian Turner and Louise Robinson venture out from page 47 to discuss the lighter side of STEM.

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November 17, 2025

University of Glasgow scientists suggest that a single gene is the biological mechanism responsible for seasonal behaviour in mammals.

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November 3, 2025

University of Sheffield engineers are using the weather to time energy intensive manufacturing for when the electricity grid’s carbon footprint is at its lowest.

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October 26, 2025

As the NEC Birmingham prepares for this year’s Lab Innovations show from 29-30 October, the event’s theme of ‘co-LAB-oration’ promises to be more than a simple play on words.

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