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Reversible composite adhesives offer new possibilities in material science

Added: 14 Mar 2025

Researchers have created reversible composite adhesives using molecular entanglement, enabling enha…

A laughing matter: humour boosts science communication

Added: 15 Mar 2025

The traditional image of scientists as solemn, white-coated figures might soon give way to a lighte…

UK life science ‘needs 145k new hires by 2035 to maintain global lead’

Added: 9 Mar 2025

Biopharma and medical technology will drive a huge growth in demand for life sciences employees ove…

Starlab survey reveals widespread laboratory cost cuts in major European economies

Added: 9 Mar 2025

Laboratory supplier Starlab Group has released a survey containing evidence of widespread cuts in s…

Universities’ trio share £0.3 million as 2025 Blavatnik science laureates

Added: 9 Mar 2025

Three university scientists have shared nearly a third of a million pounds in prize money as laurea…

Keep your lab data close to your product release decision points

Added: 2 Mar 2025

Automation can guarantee that product releases don’t fall foul of compliance rules on account of re…

Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer

Added: 1 Mar 2025

Research teams from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield will share £1 million to help unde…

Disappearing glaciers ‘now second largest contributor to sea level rise’

Added: 2 Mar 2025

Glacier loss in central Europe was nearly 40% during this century, suggests a study by Belgium’s Vr…

Bridgestone unveils guayule rubber tire

Environmental pest plant ‘offers solution to search for natural rubber sources’

Added: 2 Mar 2025

Researchers in China said they have discovered a viable new source for one of industry’s most sough…

Therapy licence enables ‘life changing’ treatment for genetic blindness

Added: 22 Feb 2025

UCL retinal specialists received special permission to use a novel therapy to restore some sight to…

ERJ Brainteaser: March

Second Innovate UK regulatory science initiative: £4.7 million for 11 projects

Added: 22 Feb 2025

Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop r…

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…