Hot Topics

Community helps overcome challenges of disability in science
Added: 7 Dec 2023
Chantelle Minchin was forced by illness to drop out of her previous university course and decided t…

Robots ‘offer effective intervention in combatting loneliness and negative emotions’
Added: 4 Dec 2023
‘Social’ robots employed during the pandemic to overcome isolation were able to help individuals st…

Flower power inspires drug cell breakthrough
Added: 4 Dec 2023
Bath university scientists have borrowed from nature to develop more stable versions of proteins an…

DEFRA data share essential to pandemic preparation urges expert
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Non-healthcare bodies such as DEFRA need to collaborate more fully with healthcare organisations in…

First phase of Oxford’s new 1 million sq. ft lab district begins
Added: 27 Nov 2023
Laing O’Rourke will begin the initial phase of Oxford North’s £700 million new innovation district,…

Autumn Statement: Chancellor confirms investment for growth via science
Added: 22 Nov 2023
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today confirmed the expected raft of commitments to boost the UK economy wit…

BHF and UK DRI to create vascular dementia research centre
Added: 19 Nov 2023
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) will establish t…

Bioinformatician’s data protection work wins 2023 Einstein Prize
Added: 19 Nov 2023
One of the world’s largest prizes for academic research has been awarded to the Belgian bioinformat…

Newly launched firm secures £4.3 million seed funding to target drug-resistant bacteria
Added: 19 Nov 2023
Glox Therapeutics, a company developing precision antibiotic therapies, has raised £4.3 million in …

Record number of Lab Awards for 2023
Added: 12 Nov 2023
Industry leaders and emerging talent dominated the winners of this year’s Lab Awards 2023, with the…

Edward Witten wins 2023 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics
Added: 12 Nov 2023
American physicist, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Edward Wit…

Bath puts safer water on the map via new OASIS
Added: 12 Nov 2023
A portable water quality monitor developed by University of Bath students aims to enable rapid dete…

AI ‘nearly twice as accurate’ as biopsies at grading some sarcomas
Added: 6 Nov 2023
Tests comparing artificial intelligence and standard biopsies revealed that AI had an 86% greater s…

NPL and government/industry partners launch quantum standards pilot
Added: 6 Nov 2023
The National Physical Laboratory has launched a pilot scheme designed to ensure the UK maintains a …

CGI signs three year Royal Institution Christmas Lectures deal
Added: 29 Oct 2023
The Royal Institution (Ri) has launched a three-year agreement with business consultancy CGI as the…

ABB and Imperial agree second decade of carbon capture collaboration
Added: 29 Oct 2023
Technology giant ABB and Imperial College London have renewed their longstanding carbon capture joi…

New map of UK 20th century land use throws light on biodiversity change
| Added: 30 Oct 2023
The first map has been produced that can detail how nearly all of Britain’s lowland meadows and pas…

Nikon photomicrography competition unveils more small world stunners
Added: 23 Oct 2023
An image of the common by-product of diabetes that causes widespread sight loss affecting up to one…

Preventing cells ‘hijack’ reverses drug resistance in prostate cancer
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Advanced prostate cancer tumours can be prevented from hijacking myeloid white blood cells to help …

First UK total-body PET platform hailed as treatment/research groundbreaker
Added: 23 Oct 2023
Leading medical bodies have pioneered the launch of the UK’s first total body non-invasive PET imag…