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Kennedy axes US$0.5 billion mRNA vaccine investment
Added: 6 Aug 2025
US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced his department will terminate 22 government c…
Parliament's senior committee claims UKRI lacks accountability
Added: 28 Jul 2025
Parliament’s senior select committee has called on government to impose tighter scrutiny on UK Rese…
UK universities’ international patent partnership filings top 100 a year
Added: 27 Jul 2025
UK universities and research institutions have filed an average of 100 patent applications with int…
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…
UK leads in Europe for life science foreign investment projects
Added: 29 Jun 2025
The UK was Europe overall’s leading European destination for life sciences foreign direct investmen…
Climate change is boosting soil-based pathogen development warns report
Added: 28 Jun 2025
Global warming is enhancing the presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil microbes, wa…
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 …
First UK-wide register of university spin-outs published
Added: 10 Jun 2025
The first national register has been published of the UK’s university spin-outs, providing comparat…
Study claims mRNA vaccines carry lower GBS risk
Added: 10 Jun 2025
A new international study claims that mRNA vaccines may be associated with a lower risk of developi…
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…
Tougher dependents’ rules blamed for drop in foreign student numbers
Added: 29 May 2025
New Office of National Statistics figures reveal a sharp fall in the number of international studen…
Ten year R&D budgets will encourage business to invest, says NCUB
Added: 24 May 2025
The Department of Science, innovation and Technology’s commitment to provide 10 year funding for re…
Peers warn maths teaching seen as ‘irrelevant’ in data-driven era
Added: 23 May 2025
UK maths education is failing to adapt to the AI and data-driven age, the chair of the House of Lor…
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 …
Call for biomedical collaboration as ‘window of opportunity’ looms
Added: 23 May 2025
Biomedical and health research body the Academy of Medical Sciences has called upon industry, unive…
National curriculum ‘biggest threat to practical science in schools’ warns survey
Added: 18 May 2025
The demands of the national curriculum are the greatest obstacle to providing the hands-on lessons …
Lords urge UK to act now on visas in global fight for US STEM talent
Added: 7 May 2025
UK immigration laws leave the country in danger of missing out on a “massive opportunity” to benefi…
Mosquito project overwhelmed by swarm of willing citizen scientists
Added: 5 May 2025
Citizen scientists working with the University of Glasgow have amassed more than 700 reports over a…
Trials tackle if menstrual cycle contributes to women’s soccer injury
Added: 5 May 2025
Football governing body FIFA is funding Kingston University to research whether the menstrual cycle…
Royal Marsden claims first with online daily adaptive radiotherapy treatment
Added: 5 May 2025
London’s Royal Marsden Hospital is claiming a medical first for a radiotherapy planning system that…
