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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…