The Department of Science (surely soon to be renamed the Department of Idiocy) even has the nerve to issue a press release claiming that its absorption of UKSA will ‘bolster’ the space sector and cut ...

University of Sheffield engineers are using the weather to time energy intensive manufacturing for when the electricity grid’s carbon footprint is at its lowest.

Eppendorf has awarded the prize in tandem with the journal Science since 2002, with more than 70 winners and finalists being recipients. Click here for more information about the Eppendorf & Science ...

Researchers from Robert Gordon University School of Computing, Engineering and Technology have secured £0.8 million for a clean energy project to produce hydrogen using waste steam from nuclear ...

A crucial contribution was made by the UK’s DiRAC High Performance Super Computer facility, in particular its Tursa GPU-based system for particle physics calculations. This was originally developed to ...

Scotland’s first open-access 300-litre fermenter promises to provide a major boost for the country’s bioeconomy, explains IBioIC’s Nei ...

Royal Veterinary College (RVC) PhD student Yuting Lin has been awarded the Ruth Bowden Award for her work on how birds use their muscles and nervous systems to stand up from sitting poses.

Stuck on this month's crossword? Here are the answers: ACROSS: 1 Compound 6 Ravish 9 Ore 10 Canon law 11 Silver 12 Dugout 13 Thrombin 14 Electrolysis 18 Fuller’s earth 20 Whitener 22 Miasma 23 En bloc ...

Ten years since the Swine Flu pandemic, the world is coming to terms with another rapidly spreading, potentially fatal respiratory viral infection. This time, the culprit is a coronavirus, but is it ...

Scientific inquiry aims to be a search for the truth. However, this has been warped by the academic community’s long-standing reliance on the impact factor, a journal-level metric which has come to ...

The University of Bath-based UK Hub for Research Challenges in Hydrogen and Alternative Liquid Fuels (UK HyRES) is providing the money to the projects which address its key themes of hydrogen ...

US company Grail claims that results for its new blood test suggest it is capable of diagnosing more than 50 cancer types.