March 2, 2025

Glacier loss in central Europe was nearly 40% during this century, suggests a study by Belgium’s Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

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February 22, 2025

Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop regulatory science and pioneering technologies.

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February 10, 2025

Despite being an internationally renowned centre of academic excellence, the UK is struggling to commercialise the innovations its research creates. Andrew Tingey discusses why the UK’s spinout sector is faltering,...

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February 7, 2025

A common freshwater species of algae packed with nutritional benefits could be the next agricultural ‘superfood’, claim researchers from the University of Birmingham.

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January 27, 2025

Upgrading and replacing assets such as refrigeration equipment requires careful attention not only to cost and efficiency but also compliance, advises Mohammed Choudhury.

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January 27, 2025

Leading UK climate change research site the Hadley Centre Climate Programme (HCCP) provided a return 33 times the support provided for its work between 2018 and 2021.

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January 20, 2025

London’s role as a lab science location has been limited by shortage of sites but evidence suggests the picture is changing rapidly, suggests Miranda Knaggs.

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January 6, 2025

An experimental combination of captive breeding and habitat management has seen one of the UK’s rarest moth species more than double its numbers at a key population site.

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January 6, 2025

Physicists from across the world studying a distant galaxy in a multinational project have discovered more than 40 previously undetected stars.

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December 20, 2024

Scientist and presenter Dr Chris van Tulleken explains why eating is like an arms race as he prepares to deliver the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, while we present this year’s...

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