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Spin-out’s £10 million aims to replace 10 billion single use plastic items

Cambridge university spin-out Xampla has won investment worth millions to enable it to develop plant-based polymers capable of replacing single-use plastics.

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Critical alternatives

As the supply of rare earth elements becomes an increasing geopolitical issue, Akseli Mansikkamäki and his colleagues at the University of Oulu are developing molecules to address the challenge.

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The promise of COVID-19 surveillance through wastewater testing

Pandemic modelling data can be gathered through mass testing by monitoring viral RNA levels in wastewater. Dr Han Wei explains how sewer sample surveillance could potentially offer an early warning r…

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Water droplet

This amazing image – Crack Patterns I, by Thomas Séon – shows a water droplet falling onto a silicon substrate at -36°C...