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Hydrogen hub invests £3million in groundbreaking net zero projects

Added: 20 Jan 2025

Funding valued at £3 million is to be shared among 10 research projects that aim to develop technol…

Unilever and Pioneer launch food and drink incubator lab at Colworth

Added: 20 Jan 2025

Unilever and Pioneer Group are to collaborate on a new state-of-the-art food and drink incubator th…

Composite product offers hope for neurodegenerative conditions, claim developers

Added: 13 Jan 2025

A novel composite material created by two UK universities has the potential to provide new treatmen…

Horizon based scheme invests €3.2 million in boosting Europe’s quantum research

Added: 13 Jan 2025

A four year project intended to boost Europe’s role in quantum research has secured €3.2 million fr…

Strategy launched to futureproof UK role in materials innovation

Added: 13 Jan 2025

The long-awaited National Materials Innovation Strategy has launched with the claim that a committe…

Imperial’s smart heart reading T-shirt nets £340k

Added: 6 Jan 2025

Imperial College London researchers have secured more than a third of a million pounds to enable th…

Gravitational lensing and international teamwork unveils 44 unknown stars

Added: 6 Jan 2025

Physicists from across the world studying a distant galaxy in a multinational project have discover…

Lab and fieldwork combine to ensure Beauty moth is a little less rare

Added: 6 Jan 2025

An experimental combination of captive breeding and habitat management has seen one of the UK’s rar…

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Added: 20 Dec 2024

Scientist and presenter Dr Chris van Tulleken explains why eating is like an arms race as he prepar…

Sea-savvy tech provides longest ever study of destructive water currents

Added: 16 Dec 2024

Durham University scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in marine geoscience, using seabe…

Stick-on monitor offers cheap and precise warning system for critical conditions, say researchers

Added: 16 Dec 2024

A novel breathing monitor created by university and commercial partners is capable of providing a l…

Organ on a chip tracks gut-to-brain toxins for Parkinson’s clues

Added: 16 Dec 2024

Researchers have developed a new multiple organ-on-chip system to help study how neurotoxins move f…

Facing a fact-free diet

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Facts are the bedrock of science and news information. Declining belief in their value surrenders t…

Biobanks: a vital investment in precision medicine

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Despite limits in size and investment, biobanks such as Estonia’s are providing deeper understandin…

New body aims to deliver on chemicals sector green pledge

Added: 8 Dec 2024

A new body designed to speed the transition to sustainable chemicals and materials in the UK has be…

Durham points the way for rapid delivery global surveys

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Durham university says it has achieved one of the highest ever response rates for a global, large s…

British Heart Foundation Heart Hero Awards highlight breakthrough pioneers

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Cardiovascular research pioneer professor Adam Greenstein has been awarded the prestigious Research…

Austria invests c€4 million in cognitive study of polarisation and misinformation

Added: 8 Dec 2024

Austria’s leading funding body for research is investing nearly €4 million in a multi-disciplinary …

LLMs’ neuroscience predictions leave the experts trailing

Added: 1 Dec 2024

They’ve long since proved their effectiveness in information retrieval. Now large language models h…

Cell detectives offer clues to counter rheumatoid arthritis flare-ups 

Added: 1 Dec 2024

The body’s ‘cell detectives’ could be employed as biomarkers for one of the world’s most widespread…