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Nuclear associations’ deal aims to foster greater US-UK exchange
Added: 19 Sep 2025
The UK’s Nuclear Institute and the American Nuclear Society (ANS) have signed an agreement to offer…

Front line safeguards
Added: 15 Sep 2025
Effective monitoring is essential for sample storage and never more so than in the race to halt a p…

Phase 2 trials underway for new pneumococcal disease vaccine
Added: 15 Sep 2025
Trials are underway on a £3.2 million-funded new vaccine to tackle the presence pneumococcal diseas…

ABPI and NCUB: lack of competitiveness undermining UK life sciences
Added: 14 Sep 2025
Britain’s place as a global leader in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors has plunged in r…

Spin-out’s £10 million aims to replace 10 billion single use plastic items
Added: 7 Sep 2025
Cambridge university spin-out Xampla has won investment worth millions to enable it to develop plan…

Greener, cleaner and plastic
Added: 1 Sep 2025
As the shift towards cleaner and sustainable energy systems progresses, plastic supercapacitors may…

Lab Babble: Turning basic science into TV gold
Added: 1 Sep 2025
Move over Mary Berry, writes Russ Swan.

Novel duo offer early diagnosis for four cardiac conditions
Added: 1 Sep 2025
Two technologies developed in UK institutions and capable of addressing four heart conditions have …

Sensing what’s right
Added: 25 Aug 2025
Rigorous cleanroom certification requires accurate, real-time data. Microchip technology provided b…

Complexity demands clarity
Added: 25 Aug 2025
Science mustn’t take refuge in obscurity, insists Matthew Partridge.

Graphite innovation for nuclear sector wins £13 million
Added: 16 Aug 2025
A scheme to support Britain’s nuclear industry through the development of sustainable graphite supp…

Generative AI boost in battle against drug resistance
Added: 15 Aug 2025
Generative AI has enabled the creation of novel antibiotics capable of killing two highly drug resi…

Kennedy axes US$0.5 billion mRNA vaccine investment
Added: 6 Aug 2025
US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced his department will terminate 22 government c…

In the public arena
Added: 4 Aug 2025
Research in the laboratory or out in the field is essential, but communicating with public audience…

Study reveals the eye is the window to the heart
Added: 3 Aug 2025
Routine eye scans could help identify major coronary illness up to a decade early, concludes resear…

The time is now
Added: 29 Jul 2025
It’s no secret that the United States is losing talented scientists but why aren’t the UK and Europ…

Parliament's senior committee claims UKRI lacks accountability
Added: 28 Jul 2025
Parliament’s senior select committee has called on government to impose tighter scrutiny on UK Rese…

UK universities’ international patent partnership filings top 100 a year
Added: 27 Jul 2025
UK universities and research institutions have filed an average of 100 patent applications with int…

Speaking scientific truth to power
Added: 23 Jul 2025
Each year, one early career chemical or process engineer swaps the lab bench for the corridors of W…

Turning to gold
Added: 21 Jul 2025
Winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s biennial prize for materials engineering Graham Hutchi…