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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…

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…