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Study links variants in single gene to incidences of dementia
Added: 11 Jan 2026
New research from UCL has identified variations in a single gene as an under-recognised target for …
New towns challenge Oxbridge supercluster domination
Added: 9 Jan 2026
Two of Britain’s post-war new towns are challenging Oxford and Cambridge’s domination of the countr…
Breast cancer is world’s most studied disease for fifth year
Added: 8 Jan 2026
Phesi’s annual report on the world’s clinical trials has revealed that breast cancer has maintained…
Plasma breakthrough transforms Space from lab to factory
Added: 5 Jan 2026
British aerospace firm Space Forge is claiming a world first after producing a vital semiconductor …
Women scientists and engineers prominent in New Year Honours list
Added: 31 Dec 2025
Women scientists and engineers have featured strongly among the upper echelons of the 2026 New Year…
Nutritional nuts come with a Christmas bonus
Added: 22 Dec 2025
They’re a staple of the holiday season and one of the few Christmas foodstuffs to enjoy a reputatio…
Manchester investment to develop energy storage technology
Added: 22 Dec 2025
Manchester university will lead a collaborative project to pioneer technology for long-term energy …
Enthusiasm for UK’s Erasmus return leaves question over Turing scheme
Added: 18 Dec 2025
News that the UK has agreed terms with the European Union to rejoin the Erasmus+ research and study…
Researcher wins £2million for quantum tech ‘spy’ system
Added: 15 Dec 2025
Heriot-Watt University researcher Dr Aldona Mzyk has been awarded £2 million to develop quantum sen…
Particology joins £8.2 mill medicines manufacture consortium
Added: 14 Dec 2025
Particle science contract research and development organisation Particology has been chosen to join…
New MedTech quals will tackle science skills gap, vows minister
Added: 14 Dec 2025
New higher technical qualifications (HTQs) have been developed in order to boost skills in the fast…
Pistoia Alliance survey warns of ‘AI scientific content crisis’
Added: 8 Dec 2025
AI systems for scientific organisations are too often being built on incomplete or insufficiently t…
Research gives new meaning to a slug of wine
Added: 8 Dec 2025
Traditionally, slugs have been viewed with hostility by farmers but a new study suggests they might…
Biotech launches redox biology global award
Added: 8 Dec 2025
A Finnish biotech has launched its own global award for scientists specialising in redox biology, w…
Warwick launches £6 million R&D space investment
Added: 1 Dec 2025
University of Warwick Science Park (UWSP) is to invest millions in redeveloping one of its key site…
New UK–Brazil research group to pioneer novel bone surgery paste
Added: 30 Nov 2025
Two British institutions have set up a new research group with a peer organisation in Brazil to dev…
Business spend on R&D improves for first time in years
Added: 30 Nov 2025
Company expenditure on research and development in the UK increased to £55.6 billion in 2024, accor…
UK’s nuclear material offers plentiful source for new cancer therapy
Added: 24 Nov 2025
Britain’s recycled nuclear material is to be used for the production of new precision cancer treatm…
Microwave tech turns clothes into wearable diagnostics
Added: 24 Nov 2025
Specialists at a Finnish university are developing a series of wearables that use microwave technol…
Researchers identify light’s hidden magnetism in Faraday Effect
Added: 24 Nov 2025
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem claim they have overturned a nearly two centuries…
