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Bowden award for researcher’s bird standing studies
Added: 24 Jul 2025
Royal Veterinary College (RVC) PhD student Yuting Lin has been awarded the Ruth Bowden Award for he…
Plant peacemaker’s segregation keeps ant wars at bay
Added: 20 Jul 2025
Plants from the Pacific based genus Squamellaria which have adapted to encourage the presence of an…
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…
Miele Professional launches glass washers to cater for all laboratory needs
Added: 27 Jun 2025
Miele Professional, a global leader in premium commercial appliances, has announced the launch of i…
Glasgow team wins £0.4 million to harness cancer-fighting immune cells
Added: 10 Jun 2025
Nearly £0.4 million has been awarded to a University of Glasgow team researching the use of immune …
Mass collaboration produces benchmark recommendations for oxylipin studies
Added: 4 Jun 2025
An international collaboration involving 100 individuals from more than 70 academic institutions ha…
Space science helps target medicine’s ‘final frontier’
Added: 29 May 2025
Space pioneers have joined an international effort to unravel the mechanisms behind what they descr…
PacBio to partner ‘first ever’ North African based dementia study
Added: 28 Apr 2025
Biotechnology company PacBio is to be a partner in a project to address the under representation of…
Evidence suggests chimps ‘bring it in’ like bonobos
Added: 28 Apr 2025
New research suggests chimpanzees and bonobos may not be markedly different from each other in thei…
AI enables vets to take cues straight from the horse’s mouth
Added: 21 Apr 2025
Two Swedish research institutions have developed an AI platform that provides a 'digital voice' for…
Study reveals older exercisers are made of tougher stuff
Added: 6 Apr 2025
Older adults may be more physically resilient when exercising than is commonly supposed, according …
Sustainable sensor guards plant health and feeds the soil
Added: 1 Apr 2025
It sounds like an environmentalist’s dream: technology that helps boost crop yields and then compos…
Further grant-aided purchase boosts AIME’s status as regional science leader
Added: 18 Mar 2025
Grant money of £1.5 million has enabled installation of a new mass spectrometer at Aston Institute …
Transplanted microbiota offers hope in fight against cotton disease threat
Added: 18 Mar 2025
A disease that has devastated cotton crops worldwide is being tackled by a novel method of plant tr…
Megalodon's true shape sheds light on aquatic gigantism
Added: 13 Mar 2025
A new study published in Palaeontologia Electronica has revealed fresh insights into the anatomy of…
Uni teams share £1 million award for work to tackle dormant breast cancer
Added: 1 Mar 2025
Research teams from the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield will share £1 million to help unde…
Therapy licence enables ‘life changing’ treatment for genetic blindness
Added: 22 Feb 2025
UCL retinal specialists received special permission to use a novel therapy to restore some sight to…
Second Innovate UK regulatory science initiative: £4.7 million for 11 projects
Added: 22 Feb 2025
Innovate UK has announced a second multimillion pound initiative in less than a month, to develop r…
Mummies’ odour is a bouquet, not a curse
Added: 14 Feb 2025
They might be the stuff of horror movies but Egyptian mummies seem to have lasted the course where …
Funds of £13 mill boost AIME to make Birmingham membrane research hub
Added: 13 Feb 2025
Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received public and private funding of more than…
