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Game Theory: Savanna

Added: 20 Oct 2025

Ecosystem’s latest iteration is Savanna, say Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner.

Evident returns to focus on the small and scientifically beautiful

Added: 19 Oct 2025

One of the world’s best known photomicrography competitions, Evident’s Image of the Year, is inviti…

Putting knowledge before prestige

Added: 6 Oct 2025

Our reliance upon the impact factor is destroying public trust in science, argues Damian Pattinson.

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

Added: 7 Sep 2025

Cambridge university spin-out Xampla has won investment worth millions to enable it to develop plan…

Lab Babble: Turning basic science into TV gold

Added: 1 Sep 2025

Move over Mary Berry, writes Russ Swan.

Phone tech to shine a light on Brazil’s pesticide problem

Added: 15 Aug 2025

Fluorescent light used in TV and mobile phone screens is being employed in a new capacity – as a pe…

Game Theory: Life

Added: 4 Aug 2025

Life is like Top Trumps for science

In the public arena

Added: 4 Aug 2025

Research in the laboratory or out in the field is essential, but communicating with public audience…

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…

Volunteers’ lichen finds give conservation boost to rare rainforest

Added: 6 Jul 2025

Citizen science volunteers have identified two rare lichens never before recorded in the north of E…

Climate change is boosting soil-based pathogen development warns report

Added: 28 Jun 2025

Global warming is enhancing the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil microbes, wa…

Innovation centre invests in algae to tackle minewater contaminants

Added: 1 Jun 2025

Synthetic biology hub SynbiCITE has awarded grant funding to aid a firm’s research into the use of …

Critical alternatives

Added: 27 May 2025

As the supply of rare earth elements becomes an increasing geopolitical issue, Akseli Mansikkamäki …

Future-proof your workforce with a scientist degree apprenticeship

Added: 22 Apr 2025

Keep your business at the forefront of science, technology, engineering and manufacturing by using …

Game Theory: Photosynthesis

Added: 14 Apr 2025

It’s fun before science with Photosynthesis, say Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner.

Chemical expansion

Added: 7 Apr 2025

After increasing to add a dedicated chemical lab zone last year, CHEMUK returns with a further addi…

Sustainable sensor guards plant health and feeds the soil

Added: 1 Apr 2025

It sounds like an environmentalist’s dream: technology that helps boost crop yields and then compos…

Green chemistry: The path to sustainable reagents in laboratories

Added: 31 Mar 2025

Green chemistry is revolutionising the way we approach sustainability in science. Rachel Sully expl…

Space scientist Aderin-Pocock to present bicentenary Ri Christmas Lectures

Added: 17 Mar 2025

Space scientist and broadcaster Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock will present this year’s Royal Institutio…

Megalodon's true shape sheds light on aquatic gigantism

Added: 13 Mar 2025

A new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica has revealed fresh insights into the anatomy of…