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Wellcome Trust on the hunt for best public engagement
Added: 16 Oct 2019
The Wellcome Trust has launched an initiative to find the best examples of public engagement projec…
Nanolaser functions inside living human tissue
Added: 26 Sep 2019
A US team has developed a nanolaser that can operate in confined spaces such as quantum circuits, m…
PM reintroduces graduate visa
Added: 18 Sep 2019
A new work visa introduced by Boris Johnson’s government will allow international science students …
US environmental agency to end animal testing by 2035
Added: 18 Sep 2019
The US Environmental Protection Agency will phase out animal testing of chemical products by 2035, …
Simple, beautiful, classic: MIT creates blackest black material
Added: 16 Sep 2019
Engineers have claimed a new record for the blackest material ever created.
Scalable membrane could filter greenhouse gases
Added: 11 Sep 2019
A new membrane filtration could be used to separate greenhouse gases from waste emissions on an ind…
$5.8M for renewable photocatalytic converter
Added: 10 Sep 2019
Houston-based plasmonics company Syzygy has raised $5.8 million to develop its eco-friendly photoca…
Medipath adds AI diagnostics to pathology labs
Added: 5 Sep 2019
AI diagnostics company Ibex Medical Analytics has partnered Medipath, the largest network of privat…
Scaled-down reactor turns greenhouse gas into fuel
Added: 4 Sep 2019
A newly-developed reactor containing a 2D catalyst is able to covert atmospheric CO2 into pure liqu…
International research projects get £3.6M
Added: 29 Aug 2019
Research England has divvied up £3.6 million for eight research institutions in the UK to help fund…
Calcium ion used as micro engine
Added: 23 Aug 2019
Theoretical physicists have used the intrinsic angular momentum of a calcium ion to effectively tur…
EPSRC funds bandage sensor tech
Added: 13 Aug 2019
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has given engineers £360,000 to develop …
Leeds creates thinnest 2D gold
Added: 8 Aug 2019
University of Leeds scientists have claimed first fabrication of freestanding 2D gold with a sub‐na…
Imperial develops fluorescent artificial cell
Added: 31 Jul 2019
Imperial College London has created an artificial cell that fluoresces when it detects chemical cha…
Quantum microphone measures phonons
Added: 30 Jul 2019
A quantum microphone that measures individual sound particles has the potential to create more comp…
Eye-controlled contact lenses
Added: 29 Jul 2019
Biomechanical engineers have created a robotic lens that allows the wearer to focus on an image thr…
