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Liquid platinum catalyst offers sustainable solution for industry

August 26, 2022
Australian scientists say they have found a way to employ platinum as a potentially scalable industrial catalyst, by avoiding the financial and environmental cost of using the metal in its...

Game Theory: Ecosystem

August 8, 2022
Games are always a fun way to spend time. Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner, reviewed Ecosystem to find out if it is any good.

eDNA and metabarcoding for monitoring biodiversity

July 17, 2022
As the impact of anthropogenic change on environmental biodiversity becomes an increasingly pressing topic of research, Lab News paraphrases a presentation given by Professor Simon Creer which outlines practical methods...

Innovations in geodetics for environmental research

July 4, 2022
From coastal landslide modelling to mapping geological hazards, monitoring active lava domes and biodiversity management, Lee Jones explains how drone-based and terrestrial LiDAR scanning has transformed image capture for environmental...

Leading chemical and utility firms join RSC polymer sustainability task force

July 2, 2022
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced four leading industry recruits have joined its Sustainable Polymers in Liquid Formulation (PLFs) task force.

RSPB report criticises poor regulation of 150 pesticides

July 2, 2022
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has attacked current risk assessments for chemicals used in UK farmland, claiming these are inadequate to guard wildlife.

Turning drought into opportunity

June 29, 2022
Mineral physics can help provide a solution to water shortage and its applications may not be limited only to our own world, suggests Sabrina Lautin.

In agro: field labs and farmer-led research

June 19, 2022
The Innovative Farmers not for profit network brings together farmers and growers with researchers to enable field trials (pun intended). A decade's worth of on-farm trial results demonstrate farmer-led research...

REF results hammer home the importance of UK university-business collaboration

June 1, 2022
The results of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) identify ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ research across the UK. Indeed, 41% of submissions were judged to be world-leading, and 43% as...

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