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UK’s first AI-driven Level 3 lab launches first commercial project
Added: 18 Jan 2026
A joint British-Canadian initiative for infectious disease vaccines will be the first commercial pr…

Gatsby: a benchmark for STEM success
Added: 16 Jan 2026
The Gatsby Foundation’s benchmarks are helping transform school careers guidance. Good news for STE…

Sounding cocci-ed
Added: 11 Jan 2026
Broadcasters have a duty to promote science but when they do, it helps to get the details right, ca…

Study links variants in single gene to incidences of dementia
Added: 11 Jan 2026
New research from UCL has identified variations in a single gene as an under-recognised target for …

New towns challenge Oxbridge supercluster domination
Added: 9 Jan 2026
Two of Britain’s post-war new towns are challenging Oxford and Cambridge’s domination of the countr…

Stars present and future
Added: 5 Jan 2026
Another strong showing across the board in a hard-fought contest for the Lab Awards 2025.

Big Ask: Bruntwood’s Kath Mackay
Added: 22 Dec 2025
Regional innovation ecosystems are crucial to ensure university spin-outs are retained and nurtured…

Manchester investment to develop energy storage technology
Added: 22 Dec 2025
Manchester university will lead a collaborative project to pioneer technology for long-term energy …

Enthusiasm for UK’s Erasmus return leaves question over Turing scheme
Added: 18 Dec 2025
News that the UK has agreed terms with the European Union to rejoin the Erasmus+ research and study…

Lab Babble: Epochs of contamination
Added: 15 Dec 2025
LLMs and nukes: not so different, says Russ Swan.

Playing in the big league
Added: 15 Dec 2025
Smaller lab equipment suppliers can be overawed by the bid process for public sector contracts. The…

New MedTech quals will tackle science skills gap, vows minister
Added: 14 Dec 2025
New higher technical qualifications (HTQs) have been developed in order to boost skills in the fast…

Powering the lab
Added: 8 Dec 2025
When a technology increases in sophistication, automation and ease of use, so can the results. In t…

Three steps for an intelligent strategy
Added: 8 Dec 2025
Generative AI will become ever more embedded within scientific research, the challenge is to keep i…

Pistoia Alliance survey warns of ‘AI scientific content crisis’
Added: 8 Dec 2025
AI systems for scientific organisations are too often being built on incomplete or insufficiently t…

Ri Christmas Lectures 2025: Universal truths
Added: 4 Dec 2025
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures mark two centuries of breaking barriers between science an…

Board of science
Added: 1 Dec 2025
Celebrating Game Theory’s 40th appearance, Ian Turner and Louise Robinson venture out from page 47 …

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…