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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.
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Protein integrity in the cause of science
Added: 20 Oct 2025
The IMPALA-NET network is developing a polymer-lipid particle technique to preserve the lipid envir…
‘Commercial seeds could threaten native wildflowers’ claim
Added: 19 Oct 2025
Commercial seeds used to help revive meadowland and plant diversity could have the opposite effect …
UK’s rarest reptile takes firmer hold in Devon
Added: 29 Sep 2025
Conservation efforts to save Britain’s rarest native reptile have resulted in a 25% year on year in…
Nuclear associations’ deal aims to foster greater US-UK exchange
Added: 19 Sep 2025
The UK’s Nuclear Institute and the American Nuclear Society (ANS) have signed an agreement to offer…
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.
Sensing what’s right
Added: 25 Aug 2025
Rigorous cleanroom certification requires accurate, real-time data. Microchip technology provided b…
Graphene ‘cleanroom’ raises the game for quantum research
Added: 24 Aug 2025
Scientists have created what they say is the cleanest graphene ever produced, possibly paving the w…
Graphite innovation for nuclear sector wins £13 million
Added: 16 Aug 2025
A scheme to support Britain’s nuclear industry through the development of sustainable graphite supp…
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…
Double dose ultrasound delivers BPA water pollution breakthrough
Added: 9 Aug 2025
Developments in ultrasound technology have provided a means for tackling difficult pollutants in wa…
In the public arena
Added: 4 Aug 2025
Research in the laboratory or out in the field is essential, but communicating with public audience…
Sophisticated techniques boost green chemistry credentials
Added: 2 Aug 2025
Structural flaws in certain electricity-conducting plastics may be responsible for limiting the mat…
The time is now
Added: 29 Jul 2025
It’s no secret that the United States is losing talented scientists but why aren’t the UK and Europ…
Bowden award for researcher’s bird standing studies
Added: 24 Jul 2025
Royal Veterinary College (RVC) PhD student Yuting Lin has been awarded the Ruth Bowden Award for he…
Turning to gold
Added: 21 Jul 2025
Winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s biennial prize for materials engineering Graham Hutchi…
Plant peacemaker’s segregation keeps ant wars at bay
Added: 20 Jul 2025
Plants from the Pacific based genus Squamellaria which have adapted to encourage the presence of an…
Ri receives boosts for outreach and environmental overhaul
Added: 19 Jul 2025
Urenco is to support the Royal Institution (Ri) in its efforts to expand its Young Scientist Centre…
