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To PhD or not to PhD: Deciding if a research degree is right for you in today’s STEM landscape

Added: 1 Mar 2026

Once the ultimate academic accolade, a PhD is now just one of many paths in science. Katy Linkens o…

Why the lab world Is heading to analytica

Added: 1 Mar 2026

In a world where scientific progress is accelerating faster than ever, staying ahead means being wh…

How to solve a problem like implementing Electronic Lab Notebooks

Added: 22 Feb 2026

Changing circumstances now favour more widespread adoption of Electronic Lab Notebooks. Yet the pro…

Digital dilemmas

Added: 16 Feb 2026

Lab 4.0 is double-edged, notes Matthew Partridge.

Biosimilars and the post-patent environment

Added: 16 Feb 2026

The market and frameworks for biologics and their biosimilars are growing and ever-evolving, as ill…

Lab Babble: From lab rat to lab art

Added: 4 Feb 2026

Russ Swan switches on the creative flow.

The invisible influencer

Added: 4 Feb 2026

Biological assays are a vital part of modern research and drug discovery, yet their reproducibility…

Microscopes to market: Exporting for innovation

Added: 2 Feb 2026

Lab and life science innovators often lack the knowledge and resources to expand into foreign marke…

Creating a digitally enabled, automated R&D environment

Added: 2 Feb 2026

Digitally enabled lab environments, driven by AI, can help accelerate innovation, reduce lab errors…

Sounding cocci-ed

Added: 11 Jan 2026

Broadcasters have a duty to promote science but when they do, it helps to get the details right, ca…

Stars present and future

Added: 5 Jan 2026

Another strong showing across the board in a hard-fought contest for the Lab Awards 2025.

Big Ask: Bruntwood’s Kath Mackay

Added: 22 Dec 2025

Regional innovation ecosystems are crucial to ensure university spin-outs are retained and nurtured…

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…

Lab Babble: Epochs of contamination

Added: 15 Dec 2025

LLMs and nukes: not so different, says Russ Swan.

Playing in the big league

Added: 15 Dec 2025

Smaller lab equipment suppliers can be overawed by the bid process for public sector contracts. The…

Powering the lab

Added: 8 Dec 2025

When a technology increases in sophistication, automation and ease of use, so can the results. In t…

Three steps for an intelligent strategy

Added: 8 Dec 2025

Generative AI will become ever more embedded within scientific research, the challenge is to keep i…

Ri Christmas Lectures 2025: Universal truths

Added: 4 Dec 2025

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

Board of science

Added: 1 Dec 2025

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

An alternative to conventional ovens and furnaces for your laboratory

Added: 10 Nov 2025

Conventional ovens and muffle furnaces are used daily in hundreds of laboratories for many differen…