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Clock ticking for nominations for RSC journals’ chemistry lectureships

Added: 22 Feb 2025

Time is running out to apply for lectureships offered through two of the Royal Society of Chemistry…

New facial detection system claims 10 times better image resolution

Added: 16 Feb 2025

Creators of a newly developed detection system say it provides accurate human facial detection over…

Bath seeks cleaner, greener water option

Added: 15 Feb 2025

Chemical engineers at the University of Bath have claimed a world first with the creation of a sust…

Mummies’ odour is a bouquet, not a curse

Added: 14 Feb 2025

They might be the stuff of horror movies but Egyptian mummies seem to have lasted the course where …

Funds of £13 mill boost AIME to make Birmingham membrane research hub

Added: 13 Feb 2025

Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received public and private funding of more than…

Crafoord Prize laureates honoured for autoimmune disease work

Added: 8 Feb 2025

Darwin and Wallace, Newton and Leibniz, or Priestley, Scheele and Lavoisier – history provides nume…

Alga ‘superfood’ comes with scaling up challenges, say scientists

Added: 7 Feb 2025

A common freshwater species of algae packed with nutritional benefits could be the next agricultura…

Wolfson grant enables purchase of world’s fastest scanning microscope

Added: 9 Feb 2025

Pioneering dementia research professor Roslyn Bill has welcomed the announcement of a £0.5 million …

AstraZeneca’s Speke U-turn deals blow to Government’s life sciences ambition

Added: 3 Feb 2025

AstraZeneca’s shock reversal of its plans to expand vaccine manufacturing at itsSpeke plant on Mers…

The Future of Lab Informatics

Added: 30 Jan 2025

What will 2025 bring in terms of lab informatics? How will advanced technologies drive new discover…

Liverpool team’s novel material promises boost to IoT storage capabilities

Added: 29 Jan 2025

University of Liverpool scientists have developed a novel material they claim may enable internet o…

Seven CERSI centres launched to speed regulatory innovation in UK medicine

Added: 28 Jan 2025

Innovate UK has announced seven Centres of Excellence for Regulatory Science and Innovation (CERSIs…

How automated tools can speed toxicology tests 

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Toxicology assessments can be time consuming, but digital repositories and tools can aid the proces…

Global survey reveals trust in scientists maintained

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Results from a vast new global survey suggest that trust in scientists remains relatively high acro…

Gallium-based bone cancer therapy paste secures £110k support

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Grant money of £110,000 has been awarded to help develop an injectable paste that could have the po…

Hadley Centre climate work ROI is 33 times Government’s expenditure

Added: 27 Jan 2025

Leading UK climate change research site the Hadley Centre Climate Programme (HCCP) provided a retur…

Breast cancer tops clinical studies for fourth year as overall trial attrition rates rise

Added: 21 Jan 2025

Breast cancer continues to be the world’s most studied disease in clinical trials, topping all cate…

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…