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Graphite innovation for nuclear sector wins £13 million
Added: 16 Aug 2025
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Phone tech to shine a light on Brazil’s pesticide problem
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Generative AI boost in battle against drug resistance
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Double dose ultrasound delivers BPA water pollution breakthrough
Added: 9 Aug 2025
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Weight loss and growth hormone patients could swap injections for pill suggests research
Added: 8 Aug 2025
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Kennedy axes US$0.5 billion mRNA vaccine investment
Added: 6 Aug 2025
US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced his department will terminate 22 government c…
Study reveals the eye is the window to the heart
Added: 3 Aug 2025
Routine eye scans could help identify major coronary illness up to a decade early, concludes resear…
Sophisticated techniques boost green chemistry credentials
Added: 2 Aug 2025
Structural flaws in certain electricity-conducting plastics may be responsible for limiting the mat…
China, obesity and biologics to fuel drug sales growth, says Evaluate report
Added: 1 Aug 2025
China’s bioscience sector growth will be a key factor in the growth of global prescription drug sal…
Parliament's senior committee claims UKRI lacks accountability
Added: 28 Jul 2025
Parliament’s senior select committee has called on government to impose tighter scrutiny on UK Rese…
UK universities’ international patent partnership filings top 100 a year
Added: 27 Jul 2025
UK universities and research institutions have filed an average of 100 patent applications with int…
Bowden award for researcher’s bird standing studies
Added: 24 Jul 2025
Royal Veterinary College (RVC) PhD student Yuting Lin has been awarded the Ruth Bowden Award for he…
Speaking scientific truth to power
Added: 23 Jul 2025
Each year, one early career chemical or process engineer swaps the lab bench for the corridors of W…
Ri receives boosts for outreach and environmental overhaul
Added: 19 Jul 2025
Urenco is to support the Royal Institution (Ri) in its efforts to expand its Young Scientist Centre…
Plant peacemaker’s segregation keeps ant wars at bay
Added: 20 Jul 2025
Plants from the Pacific based genus Squamellaria which have adapted to encourage the presence of an…
Study suggests older male endurance athletes have greater heart rhythm risk
Added: 21 Jul 2025
Older male endurance athletes may be at higher risk of abnormal heart rhythms, according to a study…
Shopping mall technicians ‘offer solution to NHS eye appointments bottleneck’
Added: 14 Jul 2025
Technician staffed virtual eye clinics in shopping centres can help significantly reduce serious ap…
Heat deaths could rise 50 times in 50 years, claims new report
Added: 14 Jul 2025
Rising temperatures and an aging population could result in a fiftyfold increase in heat related de…
Eppendorf young investigators award recognises neuron-tumour expert
Added: 14 Jul 2025
This year’s Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators has gone to an expert in neuron-tumour…
Hair’s breadth ‘chapel on a chip’ demonstrates wonders of laser manufacturing
Added: 6 Jul 2025
Sorbonne university’s Chapel of Saint Ursula has been a Parisian landmark for nearly four centuries…
