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‘Swifties’ nail 100,000 milestone

August 17, 2024
A conservation app dedicated to mobilising citizen scientists to help protect Swift populations has passed the 100,000 records milestone.

Speedy separation offers tool for microplastics and cancer cell studies

August 17, 2024
Researchers in Sweden have pinpointed a method to speed the separation of particles in fluids, providing a potential aid to the study of microplastics in drinking water and the analysis...

Sample preparation of environmental samples for trace metal analysis

August 13, 2024
A technical note is available from Analytix that highlights using a Milestone Ethos UP microwave digestion system to compare recoveries of three certified reference environmental materials using two different rotors.

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Bezos fund gives £1.2 million to develop livestock methane vaccine

August 10, 2024
The Bezos Earth Fund has awarded a UK medical institution a £1,200,000 grant to tackle livestock-methane, responsible for an estimated 14% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

Waste firm claims a first using Raman lab tech

July 31, 2024
Waste management specialist CSG is employing lab technology in the field for a new service to identify and safely dispose of unlabelled chemicals.

Baby camels identified as key factor in animal to human MERS virus transmission 

July 28, 2024
Young camels have been identified as a significant contributor in exposing humans to the potentially deadly MERS-CoV virus.

Surrey takes the p… in order to feed the world

July 21, 2024
It sounds like the classic p… take but work is underway on a project to counter the world shortage of phosphorus by extracting it instead from human urine.

Frogs’ secret defence leaves would-be predators stuck for answers

July 12, 2024
Notorious for their ability to produce defensive toxins, frogs can also employ another, less well-known chemical weapon to foil predators.

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