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Nutritional nuts come with a Christmas bonus

Added: 22 Dec 2025

They’re a staple of the holiday season and one of the few Christmas foodstuffs to enjoy a reputatio…

Manchester investment to develop energy storage technology

Added: 22 Dec 2025

Manchester university will lead a collaborative project to pioneer technology for long-term energy …

Enthusiasm for UK’s Erasmus return leaves question over Turing scheme

Added: 18 Dec 2025

News that the UK has agreed terms with the European Union to rejoin the Erasmus+ research and study…

Researcher wins £2million for quantum tech ‘spy’ system

Added: 15 Dec 2025

Heriot-Watt University researcher Dr Aldona Mzyk has been awarded £2 million to develop quantum sen…

Particology joins £8.2 mill medicines manufacture consortium

Added: 14 Dec 2025

Particle science contract research and development organisation Particology has been chosen to join…

New MedTech quals will tackle science skills gap, vows minister

Added: 14 Dec 2025

New higher technical qualifications (HTQs) have been developed in order to boost skills in the fast…

Research gives new meaning to a slug of wine

Added: 8 Dec 2025

Traditionally, slugs have been viewed with hostility by farmers but a new study suggests they might…

Biotech launches redox biology global award

Added: 8 Dec 2025

A Finnish biotech has launched its own global award for scientists specialising in redox biology, w…

Pistoia Alliance survey warns of ‘AI scientific content crisis’

Added: 8 Dec 2025

AI systems for scientific organisations are too often being built on incomplete or insufficiently t…

Warwick launches £6 million R&D space investment

Added: 1 Dec 2025

University of Warwick Science Park (UWSP) is to invest millions in redeveloping one of its key site…

New UK–Brazil research group to pioneer novel bone surgery paste

Added: 30 Nov 2025

Two British institutions have set up a new research group with a peer organisation in Brazil to dev…

Business spend on R&D improves for first time in years

Added: 30 Nov 2025

Company expenditure on research and development in the UK increased to £55.6 billion in 2024, accor…

UK’s nuclear material offers plentiful source for new cancer therapy

Added: 24 Nov 2025

Britain’s recycled nuclear material is to be used for the production of new precision cancer treatm…

Microwave tech turns clothes into wearable diagnostics

Added: 24 Nov 2025

Specialists at a Finnish university are developing a series of wearables that use microwave technol…

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…

Lab News in brief: seed funding, research citation, lead exposure, in vitro models

Added: 17 Nov 2025

University of Glasgow scientists suggest that a single gene is the biological mechanism responsible…

Kingston study proposes invertebrate solution to decline of in vivo lab skills

Added: 16 Nov 2025

Invertebrate creatures could offer the means to tackle a life sciences skills gap, suggests a new r…

Resilience head says Lords life science report ignores training role

Added: 16 Nov 2025

The head of one of the UK Medicines Manufacturing Centres of Excellence has said a recent Parliamen…

An alternative to conventional ovens and furnaces for your laboratory

Added: 10 Nov 2025

Conventional ovens and muffle furnaces are used daily in hundreds of laboratories for many differen…

Lab News in brief: CGT Catapult, PacBio, Isakson Prize, Hartwell, Exogene, Swansea Uni, Metir, Berry Genomics, diaago…

Added: 10 Nov 2025

Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult’s annual report reveals last year it worked with 70 companies on adv…