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Shedding light on how to increase UK crop yields

January 31, 2022
News
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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Food forensics: how AI can smell authentic olive oil

January 27, 2022
Feature
Extra virgin olive (EVO) oils are highly complex. Here, Prof Chiara Cordero discusses the application of an AI smelling machine to analyse, qualify, categorise, and authenticate olive oil and counteract...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials
Analytical Chemistry, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage, Food and Drink, Food Science, Forensics, Green Chemistry, In Depth, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Organic Chemistry
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Electron diffraction: A technique suggesting radically new things

January 11, 2022
Feature
Crystallography mainly relies on diffraction techniques and the most recent of them, electron diffraction, is gaining increasing attention. Dr Eric Hovestreydt discusses why nanocrystallography using electron radiation to achieve atomic...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
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Monitoring DNA in air samples could revolutionise biomonitoring

January 10, 2022
News
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
Atmospheric Sciences, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Botany, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Marine Biology, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, Paleobiology, Proteomics & Genomics, Soil Science, Zoology
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Climate change knowledge cooperative provides simplified research summaries

December 23, 2021
Insight
The Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative provides easy to understand research summaries to help everyone comprehend and act on climate change science. Charlie Rapple outlines how 15 of the world’s largest...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Analytical Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Comment And Analysis, Computational Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Geophysics, Green Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Oceanography, Organic Chemistry, Policy, Soil Science, Tectonics, Volcanology
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The promise of COVID-19 surveillance through wastewater testing

December 22, 2021
Insight
Pandemic modelling data can be gathered through mass testing by monitoring viral RNA levels in wastewater. Dr Han Wei explains how sewer sample surveillance could potentially offer an early warning...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Interviews, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Pathology, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
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Low-cost, ultra-sensitive gravimeter for early detection of volcanic activity uses MEMS technology

December 10, 2021
News
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
News
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
News
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
News
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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