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Climate change knowledge cooperative provides simplified research summaries
Added: 23 Dec 2021
The Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative provides easy to understand research summaries to help eve…

The QC lab – Connecting the digital landscape
Added: 20 Dec 2021
There is an almost universal need to combat the growing complexity of disjointed quality control ec…

Laboratories: sustainable design and operation
Added: 17 Dec 2021
Sustainability is everyone’s responsibility. Dr Manisha Kulkarni discusses why laboratory environme…

Rule Zero: Is this meeting really necessary?
Added: 16 Dec 2021
As the #greatresignation sweeps organisations into a new reality across the nation, Russ Swan discu…

Catherine Noakes and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)
Added: 14 Dec 2021
As part of a collaborative group of six British expert scientists, Catherine Noakes will join Jonat…

Sharon Peacock and the COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK)
Added: 14 Dec 2021
As part of our 2021 Royal Institutions Christmas Lecture coverage, we ask Sharon Peacock how discov…

Going viral: How Covid changed science forever
Added: 14 Dec 2021
In the 2021 Royal Institutions Christmas Lectures, Jonathan Van-Tam will be joined by expert Britis…

How to create a successful life sciences development
Added: 13 Dec 2021
With fresh funding and growth in investment across the market, Jennifer Townsend looks at three key…

2022 predictions on the advances in life sciences innovation
Added: 9 Dec 2021
Innovation experts recently hired specifically to study emerging tech and drive collaboration predi…

AI and healthcare: future opportunities and challenges
Added: 9 Dec 2021
Reflecting on six decades of progress, Steven Wolfe looks at the application of artificial intellig…

Good research has never been more important
Added: 3 Dec 2021
With scientific matters enjoying the media spotlight, Dr Frances Downey argues that the scientific …

Balloon-driven hybrid mobile communications network launched in Zanzibar
Added: 2 Dec 2021
A unique balloon-driven hybrid mobile network is being launched in Zanzibar. Expected to deliver fu…

IF AI = 1 THEN Partridge = 0
Added: 26 Nov 2021
Contemplating the potential for personal redundancy as a result of too much daydreaming, Dr Matthew…

CERN environmental report sets out concrete actions to reduce its environmental footprint
Added: 25 Nov 2021
CERN released its second public Environment Report covering the years 2019-2020 when the accelerato…

World’s leading academic journals join pledge to fight bias in publishing
Added: 25 Nov 2021
Global giants Springer Nature, De Gruyter and Taylor & Francis join Wiley, Elsevier and SAGE Publis…

Pharmaceuticals and the environment: how can the industry put its best foot forward?
Added: 22 Nov 2021
In recent years, it has become more and more important to both consumers and investors that they su…

How to gain Chinese regulation compliance
Added: 12 Nov 2021
Dr Paul Orange outlines the project which led to his involvement in the new Chinese battery protoco…

Construction robotics - research and innovation from China
Added: 12 Nov 2021
While advances in robotic automation have revolutionised manufacturing over past decades, assemblin…

Unlocking the Chinese R&D Puzzle Box
Added: 12 Nov 2021
China is the world’s second largest drug market after the US and is predicted to take a 30% share o…

Lab Awards 2021 Winners
Added: 3 Nov 2021
Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural Lab Awards 2021!
The awards were brought to you by…