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Graphite innovation for nuclear sector wins £13 million

August 15, 2025
A scheme to support Britain’s nuclear industry through the development of sustainable graphite supplies has won more than £13 millions worth of public and industry backing.

Phone tech to shine a light on Brazil’s pesticide problem

August 14, 2025
Fluorescent light used in TV and mobile phone screens is being employed in a new capacity – as a pesticide detector in food production.

Double dose ultrasound delivers BPA water pollution breakthrough

August 8, 2025
Developments in ultrasound technology have provided a means for tackling difficult pollutants in water, avoiding the addition of chemicals in the process.

In the public arena

August 4, 2025
Research in the laboratory or out in the field is essential, but communicating with public audiences is a vital part of being a scientist too, argues the Royal Institution’s Katherine...

Sophisticated techniques boost green chemistry credentials

August 1, 2025
Structural flaws in certain electricity-conducting plastics may be responsible for limiting the materials' performance, suggests new research.

The time is now

July 29, 2025
It’s no secret that the United States is losing talented scientists but why aren’t the UK and Europe doing more to take advantage of the opportunity, demands Rafael E Carazo...

Bowden award for researcher’s bird standing studies

July 23, 2025
Royal Veterinary College (RVC) PhD student Yuting Lin has been awarded the Ruth Bowden Award for her work on how birds use their muscles and nervous systems to stand up...

Turning to gold

July 21, 2025
Winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s biennial prize for materials engineering Graham Hutchings shares his personal research journey, when a career-long ‘love affair’ with gold led to pioneering advances...

Plant peacemaker’s segregation keeps ant wars at bay

July 19, 2025
Plants from the Pacific based genus Squamellaria which have adapted to encourage the presence of ants are sometimes referred to as having been domesticated by the insects.

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