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NMRC site provides first ‘terrestrial anchor’ for UK space manufacturing
Added: 4 Mar 2026
Work has finished on what will be the UK’s first in-space manufacturing hub, the new National Micro…
UK built detector components arrive in US for flagship neutrino experiment
Added: 4 Mar 2026
Four ‘building-sized’ components which will play an essential role in the UK contribution to an amb…
Photonics pioneer Brongersma wins IET’s 2026 Harvey award
Added: 18 Jan 2026
Stanford University professor Mark Brongersma has won the Institution of Engineering and Technology…
Lab Innovations organiser releases attendance figures for "most successful" show
Added: 18 Jan 2026
Organisers of the recent Lab Innovations trade show at Birmingham NEC have claimed 2025 was their m…
Researchers identify light’s hidden magnetism in Faraday Effect
Added: 24 Nov 2025
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem claim they have overturned a nearly two centuries…
Sheffield engineers harness weather forecasts for industrial green energy
Added: 3 Nov 2025
University of Sheffield engineers are using the weather to time energy intensive manufacturing for …
RGU secures £800,000 grant to drive clean hydrogen innovation
Added: 26 Oct 2025
Researchers from Robert Gordon University School of Computing, Engineering and Technology have secu…
Uni receives quarter million lab funding despite widespread NSF cuts
Added: 12 Oct 2025
America’s Hawai’i Pacific University (HPU) has received a two year grant of nearly US$243,780 for r…
Immunology, quantum and MOF dominate Nobel Prizes for science
Added: 9 Oct 2025
Nine new Nobel Prize laureates have shared the three award categories for physiology/medicine, phys…
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…
Durham takes quality control ITERations to a new level
Added: 14 Sep 2025
One of the biggest quality checks ever attempted on superconducting materials has been completed by…
Graphene ‘cleanroom’ raises the game for quantum research
Added: 24 Aug 2025
Scientists have created what they say is the cleanest graphene ever produced, possibly paving the w…
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…
Belgium’s universities start work on ‘new physics’ for CERN
Added: 4 Jun 2025
Belgian universities have begun work on updating one of the two particle physics detectors that for…
Nominations open for the 2025 Lab Awards
Added: 23 May 2025
The nominations process for this year’s Lab Awards has opened, with the winners to be announced at …
Sydney duo apply quantum tech to dynamic molecules
Added: 18 May 2025
Australia’s University of Sydney say they have performed a breakthrough simulation of how molecules…
UWS team’s radiation detector earmarked for leading world labs
Added: 13 Apr 2025
A novel radiation detector developed by staff at students at the University of the West of Scotland…
EPO: UK patent activity increases for third year but lags behind lead nations
Added: 27 Mar 2025
UK-based innovators have increased their patent filing activity in Europe for the third year in suc…
Disappearing glaciers ‘now second largest contributor to sea level rise’
Added: 2 Mar 2025
Glacier loss in central Europe was nearly 40% during this century, suggests a study by Belgium’s Vr…
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…
