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Innovate UK and EPSRC make £9m available for quantum research
Added: 31 Jul 2017
Innovate UK and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) have announced £9 mi…
Reduced demand prompts closure of Staffordshire’s council-run laboratory
Added: 31 Jul 2017
One of the last local authority-run laboratories in England is to be closed with the loss of 16 pos…
Olympus competition to celebrate best light microscopy images
Added: 27 Jul 2017
Optics manufacturer Olympus is inviting entries for its annual Image of the Year European Life Scie…
Government launches first phase of £246m battery technology challenge
Added: 25 Jul 2017
The government has announced the launch of a £246 million fund designed to establish the UK as a wo…
GSK pulls out of Ulverston biopharma plans amid major manufacturing shake-up
Added: 19 Jul 2017
Pharmaceutical giant GSK has announced plans to overhaul its manufacturing network in the UK, but s…
Complexity of UK withdrawing from Euratom made clear by European Commission
Added: 16 Jul 2017
The complexity of the UK withdrawing from Euratom has been made clear by the latest European Commis…
£138m investment to strengthen research-business partnerships
Added: 16 Jul 2017
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has announced two funding initiative…
Government commits £100 million-plus for space science
Added: 13 Jul 2017
Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson has announced government funding of £99 million for a …
Google honours 'mother of vodka' and STEM heroine
Added: 10 Jul 2017
Google has used its famous daily doodle illustration to mark the anniversary of a remarkable 18th c…
ABPI chief backs call to collaborate with EU on life sciences
Added: 5 Jul 2017
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has backed a call by Jeremy Hunt and …
Consortium wins £1million to develop new family of antibiotics
Added: 5 Jul 2017
Innovate UK has awarded nearly £1million in funding to a consortium developing a platform for the p…
Government invests £100m to attract highly skilled scientists
Added: 4 Jul 2017
The UK government has announced a £100 million fund to attract highly skilled scientists from “emer…
Skills shortage ‘costs UK industry £2 billion a year’
Added: 3 Jul 2017
Britain’s burgeoning skills shortage is already costing the country £2 billion in recruitment costs…
Government commits to nuclear fusion research post-Brexit
Added: 29 Jun 2017
The UK government has committed to funding nuclear fusion research alongside the European Union unt…
University of Nottingham invests £200m in multi-disciplinary research groups
Added: 25 Jun 2017
The University of Nottingham is to invest more than £200m in six multi-disciplinary research groups…
Industrial strategy fund worth over £700m opens to UK businesses
Added: 23 Jun 2017
A government-led industrial strategy fund worth a combined value of more than £700 million has open…
Stan Higgins among those honoured at CIA awards ceremony
Added: 20 Jun 2017
Stan Higgins was among those honoured at an awards ceremony hosted by the Chemical Industries Assoc…
Scuoler and Stannah brothers receive lift from honours list
Added: 19 Jun 2017
Stannah stairlift pioneers Brian and Alan Stannah and EEF chief executive Terry Scuoler were among …
Bath University scientists to develop biodegradable microbeads
Added: 18 Jun 2017
Researchers supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) at the Univ…
IET young engineers competition to inspire next generation
Added: 13 Jun 2017
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is hosting a competition designed to inspire th…
