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Water, the source of (lab) life
Added: 11 Sep 2023
When it comes to laboratory liquid, there’s just nothing that can top the peerless H20, argues Matt…
Game Theory: Ocean Pods
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Leicestershire-based Molinarius Games has a water focus. So how does its Ocean Pods board game meas…
Cycling to zero
Added: 4 Sep 2023
Images of workplace pollution and waste usually focus on heavy industry but ignore the sizeable con…
Look beyond the Horizon
Added: 3 Aug 2023
While many scientists are keen to see the UK back in the Horizon Europe programme, Professor Brian …
Lab Babble: Today’s fact, tomorrow’s retract
Added: 10 Jul 2023
You can withdraw a discredited paper, but the long tail of citations lingers on and on, cautions Ru…
Time to get VOCal
Added: 3 Jul 2023
We rightly pay attention to CO₂ and methane, says Chang Foo, but more consideration is needed of th…
Guestbook: Formula for our future
Added: 15 May 2023
Efforts by the energy intensive chemicals industry to promote a greener future will impact greatly …
Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Telling it like it is
Added: 9 May 2023
How to temper the urge to make projects succeed at the expense of sustainability? It’s all in the n…
Health in the round
Added: 2 May 2023
In the second of our features on key talks from the recent Lab Innovations’ My Green Lab/Laboratory…
Keener on greener
Added: 27 Mar 2023
Sustainability was the core of Lab Innovations’ MyGreenLab/Laboratory News seminar series. In the f…
Colouring our view
Added: 20 Mar 2023
The work of spectroscopy’s early pioneers continues to influence us today, says Brian J Ford, and i…
Sustainably feeding the world with genomics-driven agriculture
Added: 5 Mar 2023
As cell meat manufacture develops in the lab, science is increasingly impacting arable farming in t…
From petri dish to dinner plate
Added: 27 Feb 2023
Lab grown meat is developing into a multibillion pound industry but scaling up has challenges, expl…
Weighing: the environmental impact
Added: 10 Feb 2023
Labs are used to taking account of the effect of their processes on the environment but on a smalle…
Help us to open the lab to talent and disability
Added: 8 Feb 2023
Katherine Deane explains how your input can ensure the Access All Areas project enables science to …
Scientific nesting places
Added: 6 Feb 2023
If the day job leaves little space to stay abreast of happenings in the lab world, Twitter does hav…
A guarantee of security?
Added: 6 Feb 2023
One of Europe’s leading microbiologists wants EU legislators to follow the UK’s lead and relax the …
Lowering the barriers to nitrate analysis
Added: 9 Jan 2023
Nitrogen pollution receives less environmental attention than it has merited, says Calum Preece, bu…
The Amazon is vital to the global ecosystem but it is nobody’s ‘lung’
Added: 17 Dec 2022
The rainforest makes a crucial contribution, says Brian J Ford but it does not produce the oxygen w…
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…
