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Solving process safety and scale up

Added: 2 Oct 2020

In industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to fine chemicals, there is a need to take small, labora…

Going round in circles

Added: 9 Apr 2020

Single use plastics are a staple in the lab – but they are also are part of the plastics pollution …

(A)I must insist

Added: 10 Feb 2020

In a data-rich research landscape – only a mix of man and machine will give us hope of extracting k…

Time to reconcile science and philosophy

Added: 4 Nov 2019

Despite close historical ties, philosophy and science have had a bumpy relationship in the modern e…

More power to you

Added: 28 Oct 2019

Our need for battery power is insatiable and current lithium-ion anode technology just won’t cut it…

Innovation and sustainability for your lab

Added: 14 Oct 2019

Source new technologies, future-proof your laboratory and find out ways to make procurement sustain…

Knowing a lot about very little

Added: 19 Aug 2019

The potential of nanomedicine to tackle many diseases is immense, but we really don’t know much abo…

Reproducibility comes as standard (part 2)

Added: 5 Aug 2019

Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In t…

Reproducibility comes as standard (part 1)

Added: 29 Jul 2019

Science's reproducibility crisis is a big challenge and one that needs to be overcome quickly. In t…

Future Circular Collider: What is it?

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Earlier this year CERN announced the Future Circular Collider study aiming to build on the success …

Beating the diamond-standard

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 4 Jan 2019

Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alterna…

Two beams are better than one

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 10 Dec 2018

As neutron crystallography advances it is becoming a powerful scientific tool, but will it replace …

The chameleon and the crystal maze

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 17 Sep 2018

How a crystal structure within the skin of the famous colour-changing lizard holds the key to weara…

A real fantastic voyage

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 14 Jun 2018

When many still think that swarms of medical nanobots in the body are the stuff of science fiction,…

The future character of medicine

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 23 Mar 2018

Nanotechnology offers great promise for the improvement of the treatment of a number of diseases. H…

Some like it hot

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 16 Mar 2018

The problem of ‘hot electrons’ mean that photovoltaic cells only harvest part of the sunlight they …

Why robotics needs a radical reboot

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 12 Feb 2018

Intelligent robots that operate convincingly within the dynamic chaos of the real world are far fro…

The crystal clarity of deep learning

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 3 Oct 2017

Sean McGee explains how deep machine learning could finally prove to be the key that opens up autom…

It all comes with chips

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 12 Sep 2017

The revolution we have all been waiting for is actually in full swing say Mark Gilligan and Max Dro…

The ultimate growth industry

bpbbjpttc.d bpbbjpttc.d | Added: 1 Aug 2017

Regenerative medicine offers hope to millions of people worldwide and involves some of our most adv…