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A real fantastic voyage

June 14, 2018
When many still think that swarms of medical nanobots in the body are the stuff of science fiction, one group is going further and placing individual nanomotors actually within human...

Everyone is invited to the science party

May 10, 2018
Dallas Campbell is a well-known science populariser and, this month, will be a key speaker at the Scientific Laboratory Show talking about society’s relationship with science, technology and engineering. We...

The future character of medicine

March 23, 2018
Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. However, access to the expertise and methodologies required to characterise new nanomaterials is limited. The...

Some like it hot

March 16, 2018
The problem of ‘hot electrons’ mean that photovoltaic cells only harvest part of the sunlight they receive. if we could harvest this excess energy, we could double the efficiency of...

Why robotics needs a radical reboot

February 12, 2018
Intelligent robots that operate convincingly within the dynamic chaos of the real world are far from being a reality. For artificial systems to behave anything like living systems we need...

A distinctly combinatorial approach

February 12, 2018
As energy costs go up, will we be able to leverage the power of the sun to produce chemicals? Meet Dr Timothy Noël, who last year scooped the DECHEMA award...

Standing on SUCCESS

October 11, 2017
How to mitigate rising CO2 levels? The answer says Ehsan Jorat is right under our feet. Here he tells us about the EPSRC-funded project called SUCCESS and why soil could...

The crystal clarity of deep learning

October 3, 2017
Sean McGee explains how deep machine learning could finally prove to be the key that opens up automated analysis of protein crystals

It all comes with chips

September 12, 2017
The revolution we have all been waiting for is actually in full swing say Mark Gilligan and Max Drobot as they talk us through the incredible developments of microfluidics

The ultimate growth industry

August 1, 2017
Regenerative medicine offers hope to millions of people worldwide and involves some of our most advanced biomedical science… and some apples. Here, Carlisle Baker-Jackson brings us the most promising and...

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