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Shedding light on how to increase UK crop yields

January 31, 2022
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Recent events has demonstrated the need to increase the UK's national food harvest and build relience within our local supply chains. As light is a limiting factor in UK agricultural...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
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Monitoring DNA in air samples could revolutionise biomonitoring

January 10, 2022
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DNA from air could revolutionise the way we measure animal biodiversity, say scientists. Two research teams have independently demonstrated that airborne eDNA can be used to monitor a range of...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
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Low-cost, ultra-sensitive gravimeter for early detection of volcanic activity uses MEMS technology

December 10, 2021
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A new device being developed by University of Glasgow in collaboration with a leading product design house can detect subtle changes in local gravity and provide an early warning device...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Geology, Health & Safety, Tectonics, Volcanology
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Balloon-driven hybrid mobile communications network launched in Zanzibar

December 2, 2021
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A unique balloon-driven hybrid mobile network is being launched in Zanzibar. Expected to deliver full consumer retail and Internet of Things (IOT) coverage across Zanzibar within 24 months, the innovative...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Policy
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Renewable energy’s hybrid fuel blue hydrogen can help protect the climate

December 2, 2021
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Blue hydrogen - a renewable fuel hybrid technology - can play a positive role in the energy transition – under certain conditions concludes an international group of researchers. Blue hydrogen...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Organic Chemistry
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New microscope uses photonics to gain insights into ‘superbugs’

November 25, 2021
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Scientists are building a new super-resolution microscope that uses laser light to study the inner workings and behaviours of superbugs to gain new insights into how they cause disease. The...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Botany, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Cytology, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Genetics, Green Chemistry, Haematology, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Marine Biology, Materials, Materials Science, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Oncology, Organic Chemistry, Parasitology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Virology, Zoology
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UK demonstrates its first ‘green’ high-powered rocket engine

November 22, 2021
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A UK nuclear fusion company based in Bletchley, has just developed and tested its first launch capable, high-power chemical rocket engine in the UK. The company’s ultimate ambition in the...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Atmospheric Sciences, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Physics, Thermodynamics
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The plastics industry must go under the knife for a more sustainable future

November 22, 2021
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After 50 years of carefree consumption, urgent transformation is needed to negate large-scale greenhouse gases (GHG) being emitted annually by the plastics sector into the global atmosphere. In 2021, the...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental, Green Chemistry, Health & Safety, Materials, Materials Science
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PhD student wins leading award from UK Research and Innovation

November 2, 2021
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University of Gloucestershire PhD student, Philippa Simmonds, has won a prestigious UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) competition focusing on ways of tackling the climate emergency through the food system.
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage, Food and Drink, Food Science
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Scientists uncover a gene involved in sexual conflict in fruit flies

October 22, 2021
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Sexual conflict in fruit flies is governed by specifically wired neurons in the brain which have been pinpointed by scientists at the University of Birmingham, UK. Research offers a way...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Genetics, Microbiology, Parasitology, Proteomics & Genomics, Zoology
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