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Making it happen: young people aren’t just the leaders of tomorrow

October 23, 2020
Freelance nextgen reporter, Amy Grace, interviews Mhairi McCann; one of the Women in Engineering Society 2020 Top 50 winners and a proactive promoter of youth representation in STEM…

Career chances for technicians shouldn’t be a matter of luck

October 20, 2020
Sponsored Content The Royal Society of Chemistry’s former president Carol Robinson talks through her career path and why technicians need better support from the sector... Image: Professor Dame Carol Robinson...

Feeding the world

October 2, 2020
An international team of researchers led by Mario Herrero at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, investigated 75 emerging technologies to help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Science and scientists held in high esteem across the globe

October 1, 2020
As the world looks to scientists and the research and development process to bring new treatments and preventive strategies for the novel coronavirus, a new Pew Research Center international survey...

Improving the luck of the horseshoe crab

September 21, 2020
Following some recent media controversy, Allen Burgenson, and Glenn Gauvry update our original July 2015 coverage and give us the real story behind the acceptance by the major Pharmacopeia of...

Environmentally friendly silicon recycling

September 10, 2020
Skoltech scientists and their colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) have developed a new method of silicon recycling. Their research was published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

New fossil ape discovered in India

September 9, 2020
A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon. The discovery by Christopher C. Gilbert, Hunter College, fills...

Fungus leather: new front-runner for sustainable clothing material

September 9, 2020
In a new review paper by the University of Vienna, Imperial College London, and RMIT University in Australia, researchers argue that leather made from fungi has "considerable potential" to be...

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