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Treasury opts for stealth to ‘announce’ takeback of £1.6 bill EU Horizon funds
Added: 23 Feb 2023
Some £1.6 billion in funds allocated for scientific research has been taken back by the Treasury.
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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…
UEA survey seeks to improve disabled access to lab professions
Added: 14 Feb 2023
University of East Anglia researchers are appealing to participants nationwide to contribute to the…
Weighing: the environmental impact
Added: 10 Feb 2023
Labs are used to taking account of the effect of their processes on the environment but on a smalle…
Help us to open the lab to talent and disability
Added: 8 Feb 2023
Katherine Deane explains how your input can ensure the Access All Areas project enables science to …
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…
A guarantee of security?
Added: 6 Feb 2023
One of Europe’s leading microbiologists wants EU legislators to follow the UK’s lead and relax the …
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…
NASA awaits return of landmark space experiments cargo
Added: 8 Jan 2023
Samples from pioneering experiments into radiation, hydroponics and bioprospecting in microgravity …
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…
UK poised to be world-leading lab-grown meat producer, claims patent firm
Added: 17 Dec 2022
The United Kingdom is on course to play a major international role in the development of lab-grown …
Can you use a large electron microscope next to a freight train?
Added: 5 Dec 2022
Thomas E Davies describes the challenges of operating highly sensitive equipment in a city environm…
Automated material analysis offers cut to cost and human error
Added: 4 Dec 2022
Researchers in Japan have developed a method to automate a mathematical procedure used to analyse X…
Lab Babble: The Modern Prometheus
Added: 28 Nov 2022
Not content with streamlining all scientific research, Russ Swan now offers a blueprint for human e…
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…
The final frontier
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Sustainability goals in science must include one untilrecently overlooked issue: lab space and the …
Dystopia calling…
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Dr Matthew Partridge has seen the 2050 future and it works, even if we no longer understand why.
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