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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…
The value of medical research is: 25 pence (for every pound, for ever)
Added: 17 Jan 2018
A decade-long study by Brunel University claims to have an answer to the question that has taxed ac…
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 …
HSE issued Crown Censure over burns injury at its Buxton lab
Added: 7 Dec 2017
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been issued a Crown Censure after a worker at its lab in …
EPSRC invests £7m in materials research at SuperSTEM microscopy lab
Added: 4 Dec 2017
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has invested £7 million in new equip…
MSD life sciences deal a ‘huge vote of confidence in industrial strategy’
Added: 28 Nov 2017
The government has said a deal to invest in life sciences research and development in the UK “repre…
IET research shows majority of children see engineering as male profession
Added: 24 Nov 2017
Research by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) reveals only 9% of children aged be…
‘Light on science’ Budget includes £2.3bn investment for R&D
Added: 23 Nov 2017
Chancellor Philip Hammond’s Autumn Budget has promised an additional £2.3 billion for research and …
STEM grads more likely to be out of work says CIPD report
Added: 17 Nov 2017
Young people who study STEM subjects have the highest rate of graduate unemployment immediately aft…
Engineering firm sentenced over legionella risk at powder coating plant
Added: 17 Nov 2017
De-Met Colourcoat has been sentenced after failing to adequately control the risk of legionella bac…
