All Earth & Environmental
Health in the round
Added: 2 May 2023
In the second of our features on key talks from the recent Lab Innovations’ My Green Lab/Laboratory…
‘Robocarp’ makes splash with motion breakthrough
Added: 28 Apr 2023
A coil-powered robot fish designed by scientists at the University of Bristol could enhance underwa…
Wading with dinosaurs
Added: 24 Apr 2023
As the Natural History Museum hosts the first European display of Patagotitan, Brian J Ford resurfa…
Northumbria-led global polar team reveals shocking rise in ice sheet depletion
Added: 23 Apr 2023
The last decade saw seven of the worst cases of polar ice depletion, with 2019 ranked the most seri…
Fragrance industry scents trouble from EU substance reclassification
Added: 15 Apr 2023
European Union changes to chemicals legislation are a potential threat to the substantial fragrance…
Keener on greener
Added: 27 Mar 2023
Sustainability was the core of Lab Innovations’ MyGreenLab/Laboratory News seminar series. In the f…
Investing in futures
Added: 5 Mar 2023
It’s not only students who need to take placements seriously. Lab managers too must adopt a long-te…
Sustainably feeding the world with genomics-driven agriculture
Added: 5 Mar 2023
As cell meat manufacture develops in the lab, science is increasingly impacting arable farming in t…
Northern Ireland deal appears to boost UK’s Horizon Europe hopes
Added: 1 Mar 2023
Prime minister Rishi Sunak’s achievement of an agreed new Northern Ireland protocol with his Europe…
Southampton University’s featherweight plans knockout blow for space debris
Added: 15 Feb 2023
Southampton University researchers have successfully piloted the launch of a small scale plasma thr…
Scientific nesting places
Added: 6 Feb 2023
If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does hav…
Rare mineral project offers means to tackle acid effect on ocean life
Added: 29 Jan 2023
Scientists at Heriot-Watt and Hamburg universities say they have developed a process to boost ocean…
Lowering the barriers to nitrate analysis
Added: 9 Jan 2023
Nitrogen pollution receives less environmental attention than it has merited, says Calum Preece, bu…
Call for targeted approach to boost bird-friendly farming
Added: 8 Jan 2023
Threatened farmland bird species would benefit from a more strategic investment of resources rather…
The Amazon is vital to the global ecosystem but it is nobody’s ‘lung’
Added: 17 Dec 2022
The rainforest makes a crucial contribution, says Brian J Ford but it does not produce the oxygen w…
Image integrity in academic papers
Added: 28 Nov 2022
Academic papers are the most important medium for introducing results to the scientific community, …
Millions of pounds of expired Covid PPE faces disposal, claims firm
Added: 22 Nov 2022
A surplus of personal protective equipment to deal with an expected third winter spike in Covid-19 …
Sustainability’s other R-words
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Environmental practice has its own version of the Three Rs, says Colin Shandley, so why stop at ‘Re…
View from the business end
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Tim Doggett explains the importance of sustainability for modern laboratories in terms of the wider…
Tech challenges hinder mountain water data gathering
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Global failure to make better use of the latest monitoring technologies for high altitude water dat…
