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Lab Innovations organiser releases attendance figures for "most successful" show

Added: 18 Jan 2026

Organisers of the recent Lab Innovations trade show at Birmingham NEC have claimed 2025 was their m…

Gatsby: a benchmark for STEM success

Added: 16 Jan 2026

The Gatsby Foundation’s benchmarks are helping transform school careers guidance. Good news for STE…

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…

FreshCheck funding enables expansion into healthcare applications

Added: 4 Jan 2026

Imperial College London Startup FreshCheck has been awarded £150,000 to aid the rollout of its hygi…

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…

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…

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…

Board of science

Added: 1 Dec 2025

Celebrating Game Theory’s 40th appearance, Ian Turner and Louise Robinson venture out from page 47 …

Ri Christmas Lectures 2025: Universal truths

Added: 4 Dec 2025

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures mark two centuries of breaking barriers between science an…

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…