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The plastics industry must go under the knife for a more sustainable future
Added: 22 Nov 2021
After 50 years of carefree consumption, urgent transformation is needed to negate large-scale green…
PhD student wins leading award from UK Research and Innovation
Added: 2 Nov 2021
University of Gloucestershire PhD student, Philippa Simmonds, has won a prestigious UK Research and…
Greening the lab: first net zero mass spectrometer launched
Added: 5 Oct 2021
As part of an initiative to permanently remove CO₂ emissions associated with the manufacture and su…
Dinosaur domination resulted from volcano-driven climate change
Added: 27 Sep 2021
The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic eruptions over …
UKRI funding to bring the public into the heart of five research projects
Added: 27 May 2021
UK Research and Innovation is encouraging people from across the UK to actively contribute to five …
Jordan's water crisis should be a warning for the world
Added: 31 Mar 2021
It is very easy to take tap water for granted. But sobering predictions of recent research around J…
Positive 'tipping points' offer hope for climate
Added: 22 Mar 2021
Climate change mitigation is forever a balancing act. Environmental experts are beginning to unveil…
'Team ice' uncover crucial information to aid the development of new more active cryoprotectants
Added: 17 Mar 2021
Researchers uncover new understanding around the interactions between synthetic polymers and ice fo…
Science priorities agreed for 2024 lunar exploration
Added: 9 Dec 2020
Planetary processes and polar resource potential prioritised by lunar science team. Researchers pre…
Significant water deposits on the moon confirmed
Added: 26 Oct 2020
If you got trapped on the moon you'd at least be able to fill your water bottle according to NASA's…
Hybrid floating solar plus hydropower system
Added: 7 Oct 2020
Hybrid systems of floating solar panels and hydropower plants may hold the technical potential to p…
Coronavirus 'trap and zap' technology
Added: 24 Aug 2020
Rice University researchers plan to reconfigure their 'trap and zap' wastewater-treatment technolog…
Converting self-sterilising water filtration technologies for COVID-19 protection
Added: 24 Aug 2020
With the worldwide focus on coronavirus prevention and transmission, a new type of air-filter that …
Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission launched
Added: 31 Jul 2020
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of …
Affordable carbon-loving materials for reduced industrial emissions
Added: 28 Jul 2020
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tenne…
Return to work safely: Managing transmission in transport hubs
Added: 18 May 2020
Aerosol specialists – ANCON Medical – discuss innovation that could detect COVID-19 in high traffic…
Ice-free Arctic seas by 2050
Added: 24 Apr 2020
Arctic sea-ice simulations suggest ice-free summers before 2050 despite rapidly reduced carbon emis…
Ethiopian ponds too extreme even for microbes
Added: 25 Nov 2019
European biologists have confirmed the one place on Earth where conditions are too extreme for life…
SERC experiments show CO2 stunts wetlands
Added: 27 Sep 2019
While CO2 is essential for plant growth, excessive CO2 in the atmosphere is stunting growth in mars…
PM reintroduces graduate visa
Added: 18 Sep 2019
A new work visa introduced by Boris Johnson’s government will allow international science students …