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Brexit a growing influence on UK firms’ decision to delay investment increases
Added: 1 Oct 2018
The UK’s low productivity performance is likely to dip further as British businesses withhold inves…
Multi-million refurb for Parker Bioscience UK site
Added: 16 May 2018
Parker Bioscience’s UK site in Birtley is set for a multi-million dollar phased investment programm…
EnviroChemie purchases Clearfleau
Added: 4 Apr 2018
German water brand EnviroChemie has taken control leading UK effluent treatment firm Clearfleau.
Engineering body funding for Liverpool University research tops £3 million
Added: 27 Mar 2018
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded the University of Liverp…
UK pharma and biotech patent applications soar
Added: 13 Mar 2018
UK applications for pharmaceutical and biotech patents recorded the second highest rise in percenta…
Wood handed contract to bring space tech to nuclear decommissioning
Added: 20 Feb 2018
The Government has awarded energy services firm Wood Group funding worth around £1.5 million to mak…
EPSRC awards Huddersfield University £1.5m to expand materials research
Added: 20 Feb 2018
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded the University of Hudder…
Chemistry failing in battle for STEM recruits warns industry survey
Added: 15 Feb 2018
Shortcomings in academic teaching are making it harder to recruit STEM students as professional che…
HEFCE money to enable Southampton to share UK photonics skills
Added: 25 Jan 2018
Southampton university has received £0.2 million from the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) …
China assumes lead in science and tech research paper output
Added: 25 Jan 2018
China has overtaken the USA as the world’s leading producer of scientific and technological researc…
BBI’s purchase of Maine Biotechnology Services adds 80 antibodies to portfolio
Added: 17 Jan 2018
Cardiff-based BBI Solutions has added more than 80 antibodies to its product portfolio following th…
Pfizer cuts neuroscience research into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases
Added: 11 Jan 2018
Drug giant Pfizer’s announcement that it will withdraw from neuroscience research into products aim…
Coking-resistant catalyst fuels shale gas conversion method
Added: 5 Jan 2018
Researchers at University College London (UCL) and Tufts University have developed an alloy catalys…
Chemical looping technology transforms shale gas without emissions
Added: 3 Jan 2018
Engineers and scientists at Ohio State University have developed a method of converting shale gas a…
HSE to target food manufacturing ill health with unannounced inspections
Added: 2 Jan 2018
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will start making unannounced inspections of food manufacturi…
Eindhoven researchers develop micro-spectrometer to fit ‘inside a smartphone’
Added: 21 Dec 2017
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT) have developed a micro-spectrometer they sa…
Cavendish Nuclear wins £95m clean up contract with Sellafield
Added: 19 Dec 2017
Cavendish Nuclear has been awarded a contract worth £95 million to support clean up at Sellafield n…
Fracking wastewater treatment could cost £1million per well in UK
Added: 18 Dec 2017
The treatment and disposal of fracking wastewater in the UK could cost between £100,000 and £1 mill…
Machine learning algorithm could accelerate drug discovery
Added: 15 Dec 2017
A machine learning algorithm developed by an international team of researchers could be used to acc…
Government invests £86m in nuclear fusion research
Added: 11 Dec 2017
The government has invested £86 million in the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) nuclear fusion …
