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Sound of the City

Added: 14 Nov 2023

Government hopes to drive UK growth through the life sciences depend upon commercial as well as pub…

Breaking down a breakup

Added: 6 Nov 2023

The seas around Florida provided the opportunity to analyse the movement of the Earth’s crust durin…

Building scientific communities

Added: 6 Nov 2023

The pandemic delivered a temporary setback to the face-to-face conference but spurred interest in h…

Lab.or.a.tol.o.gy: Drilling down – or boring?

Added: 30 Oct 2023

If you find a subject dull, time to shoot the messenger, says Matthew Partridge.

Quantum of challenge

Added: 16 Oct 2023

Its market value will soon be measured in billions, yet quantum computing has yet to reach a market…

Lab Innovations 2023: sustainable solvent selection

Added: 9 Oct 2023

While much discussion around sustainability has focused on the energy efficiency of instruments and…

Getting drastic on plastic

Added: 25 Sep 2023

Our third feature on the Lab innovations My Green Lab/Laboratory News-curated sessions details Labc…

A lighter approach

Added: 18 Sep 2023

The drive to achieve sustainable laboratories affects all areas of operation. After the more obviou…

Informed consent: Maximising compliance and minimising risk

Added: 12 Sep 2023

While the principle of participant consent is better appreciated in clinical research today than in…

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…

Innovation in digital imaging is essential for the modern lab

Added: 6 Sep 2023

Technological advances mean switching from microscopes to digital alternatives can be achieved with…

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 …

New tools for an old enemy

Added: 30 Jul 2023

It’s 30 years since the World Health Organisation identified the resurgence of tuberculosis as a gl…

Stopping the rot

Added: 23 Jul 2023

The global cold chain is functioning but often ineptly, with consequences for food and vaccine supp…

Hyper-space

Added: 16 Jul 2023

There’s a temptation in space science to bill every act of participation as a success, whatever the…

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…

Embrace the new

Added: 26 Jun 2023

Its name harks back to a bygone era, but the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 is at the …

Multi-tasked, ultrafast and kinder

Added: 26 Jun 2023

Ongoing technological advances to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) are contributing to…