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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…
Heat deaths could rise 50 times in 50 years, claims new report
Added: 14 Jul 2025
Rising temperatures and an aging population could result in a fiftyfold increase in heat related de…
Volunteers’ lichen finds give conservation boost to rare rainforest
Added: 6 Jul 2025
Citizen science volunteers have identified two rare lichens never before recorded in the north of E…
UK leads in Europe for life science foreign investment projects
Added: 29 Jun 2025
The UK was Europe overall’s leading European destination for life sciences foreign direct investmen…
