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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…
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…
Birmingham four win RSC research prizes
Added: 29 Jun 2025
The University of Birmingham is celebrating Royal Society of Chemistry research prize wins for four…
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 …
Space science helps target medicine’s ‘final frontier’
Added: 29 May 2025
Space pioneers have joined an international effort to unravel the mechanisms behind what they descr…
Securing the base
Added: 27 May 2025
Lack of reliable access and sufficient supply of chemicals can undermine laboratory operations, war…
Critical alternatives
Added: 27 May 2025
As the supply of rare earth elements becomes an increasing geopolitical issue, Akseli Mansikkamäki …
Nominations open for the 2025 Lab Awards
Added: 23 May 2025
The nominations process for this year’s Lab Awards has opened, with the winners to be announced at …
Study unearths role of fertilisers in crop metals uptake
Added: 9 May 2025
Animal based fertilisers ensure agriculture and water systems are less exposed to pollutants than t…
Shall I compare thee to soft robotics…?
Added: 7 May 2025
A scientific revelation regarding rose petals has been hailed by its discoverers as a potential bre…
Mosquito project overwhelmed by swarm of willing citizen scientists
Added: 5 May 2025
Citizen scientists working with the University of Glasgow have amassed more than 700 reports over a…
Show Preview: Chemical expansion
Added: 28 Apr 2025
After increasing to add a dedicated chemical lab zone last year, CHEMUK returns with a further addi…
PacBio to partner ‘first ever’ North African based dementia study
Added: 28 Apr 2025
Biotechnology company PacBio is to be a partner in a project to address the under representation of…
Evidence suggests chimps ‘bring it in’ like bonobos
Added: 28 Apr 2025
New research suggests chimpanzees and bonobos may not be markedly different from each other in thei…
Game Theory: Photosynthesis
Added: 14 Apr 2025
It’s fun before science with Photosynthesis, say Dr Louise Robinson and Dr Ian Turner.
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Chemical expansion
Added: 7 Apr 2025
After increasing to add a dedicated chemical lab zone last year, CHEMUK returns with a further addi…
