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Lowering the barriers to nitrate analysis
Added: 9 Jan 2023
Nitrogen pollution receives less environmental attention than it has merited, says Calum Preece, bu…
Game Theory: Periodic – A Game of The Elements
Added: 12 Dec 2022
Periodic – A Game of The Elements amply rewards the challenge it presents, conclude Dr Louise Robin…
The science of art
Added: 12 Dec 2022
The Courtauld Institute of Art’s expertise in preserving art works derives in part from its use of …
Can you use a large electron microscope next to a freight train?
Added: 5 Dec 2022
Thomas E Davies describes the challenges of operating highly sensitive equipment in a city environm…
Mimicry with consistency
Added: 5 Dec 2022
Research into neurodegenerative conditions can be hampered by difficulty accessing scalable, transl…
Image integrity in academic papers
Added: 28 Nov 2022
Academic papers are the most important medium for introducing results to the scientific community, …
Lab Babble: The Modern Prometheus
Added: 28 Nov 2022
Not content with streamlining all scientific research, Russ Swan now offers a blueprint for human e…
The final frontier
Added: 20 Nov 2022
Sustainability goals in science must include one untilrecently overlooked issue: lab space and the …
Dystopia calling…
Added: 14 Nov 2022
Dr Matthew Partridge has seen the 2050 future and it works, even if we no longer understand why.
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View from the business end
Added: 7 Nov 2022
Tim Doggett explains the importance of sustainability for modern laboratories in terms of the wider…
Lab 2050: Four pillars of transformation
Added: 7 Nov 2022
To prepare for the laboratory of the future we must ask, decades ahead, how it will look? Pistoia A…
Lab Awards finalists named
Added: 26 Oct 2022
Finalists have been announced for the Lab Awards – hosted by Lab Innovations in partnership with La…
How can AI advance laboratory research?
Added: 21 Oct 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making waves across industries, and laboratory research may be the …
I’m reviewing the simulations…
Added: 12 Sep 2022
It may not be robots that researchers need to fear. Dr Matthew Partridge suggests, however, that th…
How to implement data-driven R&D
Added: 18 Jul 2022
While helping his colleague Peter Rhodes prepare for a talk hosted by Lab News at CHEMUK 2022, Max …
Setting up a philanthropic genomic testing marketplace
Added: 10 Jul 2022
Mike Hudson tells the story of how one not-for-profit has helped UK Covid testing laboratories and …
Turning drought into opportunity
Added: 30 Jun 2022
Mineral physics can help provide a solution to water shortage and its applications may not be limit…
Five-letter words for research: ‘trial’ and ‘error’
Added: 31 May 2022
You now have six attempts to guess the craze that has hooked Dr Matthew Partridge as he envisages a…
Identifying and reducing day-to-day stress in laboratories
Added: 19 May 2022
A busy laboratory can be a stressful working environment, especially if there is a backlog of sampl…
Industry 4.0 for UK chem labs
Added: 10 May 2022
In advance of her talk as part of the Lab News hosted session at CHEMUK 2022, Iwona Kandpal looks a…
