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Cool roofs could have saved c250 heatwave deaths, claims UCL/Exeter study

October 1, 2024
Nearly 250 lives could have been prevented during London’s record 2018 hot summer if the capital had made wide use of reflective colour roofs, claims joint research from UCL and...

Fundamentally unintelligent

September 30, 2024
AI didn’t invent job automation or fake images. Better to worry anyway about social media, urges Professor Brian J Ford…

Europe to mark lab science’s key role again with dedicated day

September 29, 2024
European Laboratory Day returns on 5 November to focus on the contribution of laboratory medicine professionals across the continent.

Aston AIME celebrates launch with collaborative science

September 21, 2024
The new Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence has hosted its official academic launch at Aston University with more than 100 leading biology, chemistry, physics and engineering academics and international speakers...

BioGrad announces national expansion with opening of York site

September 21, 2024
Laboratory testing specialist BioGrad Group has announced plans for a major site in York – the fifth site it will have established across Britain since 2022.

Replacing ultra-processed foods in diet associated with reduction in type 2 diabetes risk

September 15, 2024
A new study of the links between processed foods and diabetes risk suggests considerable variation, even within the higest degree ultra-processed food (UPF) category.

Alzheimer’s Society pledges £9 million for three dementia training centres

September 15, 2024
The Alzheimer’s Society is investing in a multimillion pound project to tackle the talent drain of promising new researchers.

Dundee MRC PPU wins £27 million-plus for groundbreaking disease and reagents research

September 7, 2024
The University of Dundee’s renowned MRC PPU (Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation) unit has been awarded additional funds of £27.4 million from the Medical Research Council (MRC).

Do research AI rules disadvantage non-native English scientists?

September 5, 2024
Valuable research by non-native English speakers gets missed, suggests Adrian Wallwork, because of the cost of translation services. A more enlightened approach to the use of LLMs could solve the...

Cell mapping project gives hope for new insights into endometriosis

September 1, 2024
Scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Oxford University’s Nuffield department of women’s and reproductive health have created the most comprehensive and sophisticated map of the human endometrium yet achieved.

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