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...

Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering

Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Policy

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.

Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering

Astrophysics, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Policy

March 4, 2026

Four ‘building-sized’ components which will play an essential role in the UK contribution to an ambitious international physics project have been shipped to the United States from the Daresbury Laboratory.

Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering

Astrophysics, Atmospheric Sciences, Energy, Environment, Particle Physics, Physics, Theoretical Physics

February 2, 2026

Lab and life science innovators often lack the knowledge and resources to expand into foreign markets. That’s where UK Export Finance could make a difference, says Tim Reid.

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Biology, Biotech, Comment And Analysis, Energy, Health & Safety, Life Sciences, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy

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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January 18, 2026

Stanford University professor Mark Brongersma has won the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) most prestigious award, the A F Harvey Engineering Research Prize.

Energy, Engineering, Physics

December 8, 2025

When a technology increases in sophistication, automation and ease of use, so can the results. In the case of electron microscopy, gains in the laboratory have been considerable, explain Anna...

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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 24, 2025

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem claim they have overturned a nearly two centuries old assumption about the relationship between electromagnetism and light.

Energy, Physics

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.

Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering

Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Engineering, Environment