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Board of science

Added: 1 Dec 2025

Celebrating Game Theory’s 40th appearance, Ian Turner and Louise Robinson venture out from page 47 …

Ri Christmas Lectures 2025: Universal truths

Added: 1 Dec 2025

The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures mark two centuries of breaking barriers between science an…

Warwick launches £6 million R&D space investment

Added: 1 Dec 2025

University of Warwick Science Park (UWSP) is to invest millions in redeveloping one of its key site…

Business spend on R&D improves for first time in years

Added: 30 Nov 2025

Company expenditure on research and development in the UK increased to £55.6 billion in 2024, accor…

UK’s nuclear material offers plentiful source for new cancer therapy

Added: 24 Nov 2025

Britain’s recycled nuclear material is to be used for the production of new precision cancer treatm…

Kingston study proposes invertebrate solution to decline of in vivo lab skills

Added: 16 Nov 2025

Invertebrate creatures could offer the means to tackle a life sciences skills gap, suggests a new r…

Resilience head says Lords life science report ignores training role

Added: 16 Nov 2025

The head of one of the UK Medicines Manufacturing Centres of Excellence has said a recent Parliamen…

Breaking down barriers to scientific knowledge

Added: 10 Nov 2025

The journey toward Open Science is complex and varied, but at its core lies a shared vision: making…

No. 10’s approach doesn’t add up

Added: 4 Nov 2025

Russ Swan despairs for science and tech.

Supercomputer enables AI model to ‘speak’ better Protein

Added: 27 Oct 2025

A computer system used to study the vast expanse of the universe has been employed to develop a mac…

No-braining training

Added: 26 Oct 2025

New job, same old induction, rues Matthew Partridge.

Collaborative science in the spotlight

Added: 26 Oct 2025

As the NEC Birmingham prepares for this year’s Lab Innovations show from 29-30 October, the event’s…

Game Theory: Savanna

Added: 20 Oct 2025

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

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…

Firm claims successful results for test identifying 50 cancers

Added: 19 Oct 2025

US company Grail claims that results for its new blood test suggest it is capable of diagnosing mor…

Launch of three new microwave digestion systems

Added: 13 Oct 2025

Quality analysis with ICP-MS and AA/ICP-OES starts with good sample preparation and for this to be …

Mark of quality

Added: 13 Oct 2025

An important international standard, ISO/IEC 17025:2017 sets clear rules for how testing and calibr…

UK science institutions ‘vulnerable’ to political interference, warns report

Added: 9 Oct 2025

Leading UK scientific institutions such as the Met Office and the UK Health Security Agency lack su…

Doctoring priorities

Added: 6 Oct 2025

The medical profession is a key laboratory client. So, it pays to understand the strategic prioriti…

Putting knowledge before prestige

Added: 6 Oct 2025

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