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REF results hammer home the importance of UK university-business collaboration

June 1, 2022
The results of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) identify ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ research across the UK. Indeed, 41% of submissions were judged to be world-leading, and 43% as...

Five-letter words for research: ‘trial’ and ‘error’

May 31, 2022
You now have six attempts to guess the craze that has hooked Dr Matthew Partridge as he envisages a research learning tool that returns experimental results as side-by-side, colour coded...

How to minimise the risk of cross-contamination in laboratories

May 26, 2022
Cross-contamination is a major concern for any laboratory and can lead to false and inaccurate results. Andrew Powers discusses how to mitigate the risk of potential time and resource losses...

Meet the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy

May 23, 2022
Scientists have captured humanity’s first look at the supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), that is at the centre of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The Sgr...

Identifying and reducing day-to-day stress in laboratories

May 19, 2022
A busy laboratory can be a stressful working environment, especially if there is a backlog of samples or the team is working on a tight timescale. Nadine Bellamy-Thomas considers the...

Reducing microbiological growth in your lab

May 12, 2022
Microbes are invisible to the naked eye. Every laboratory user carries a microbiome load of c.100 trillion microbes and sheds 10gms of skin each day. Under optimum conditions, a microbial...

Lab furniture design for health and hygiene

May 10, 2022
Unlike cleanrooms, many laboratories aren't ISO 14644 registered when it comes to air particle count. Sue Springett discusses why any organisation that purports to foster a hygienic culture should be...

When more knowledge does not equal more complexity

May 9, 2022
In a world saturated with information, Dr Diane Turner discusses how more in-depth learning about application methods and approaches can often help simplify the use of analytical instrumentation, rather than...

Augmented Reality helps people live with Parkinson’s disease

April 29, 2022
A collaborative partnership has developed the World's First pair of Parkinson’s Walking Glasses, a wearable mobility device that projects visual cues to facilitate mobility for people with Parkinson’s Disease. Thanks...

Two millimetre optical microresonator will improve planetary landing success

April 21, 2022
Smaller, they say, is better in space. A NASA-funded team led by SMU researchers think that their small, lightweight device developed to measure spaceship velocity will improve the odds of...

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