All United Kingdom articles
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NewsExplainer: Why is the UK banning disposable vapes?
Prior to the ban, almost seventy million single-use e-cigarettes were being discarded each year in the UK – containing enough lithium for a thousand electric vehicle batteries
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NewsUK government announces 10-year budgets for R&D
Policy details to be announced at next spending review
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NewsUK funding agency to support controversial climate cooling research
Critics warn against shifting focus from emissions reduction towards ‘speculative’ cooling technologies
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OpinionGiving companies room to grow
Can shopping centres and offices become urban lab spaces for innovative companies to grow and scale-up?
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BusinessOut of the suburbs: the rise of urban labs
Could empty office blocks and shopping centres provide much-needed space for growing companies?
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BusinessThe problem of scale-up in the UK
What’s the point of knowledge generation if we’re not creating high value jobs, asks Chris Kay
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BusinessThe hole in the UK chemical industry
Norman Keane thinks ICI’s breakup has left a gap in scale-up knowhow and skills, as well as a lack of facilites
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NewsConcerns raised about PFAS leaking from three UK military bases
Sites could pose a threat to drinking water supplies and sensitive freshwater environments
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BusinessGovernment reduces UK Reach fees by ‘£40 million’
Registration fees for most chemicals reduced, but uncertainty remains over safety data requirements
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NewsUKRI faces real terms budget cut for coming year
Concerns raised over government’s support for fundamental research
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NewsJisc launches new line of defence to protect universities from cyber attacks
Security centre will identify unusual web traffic and threats
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NewsChemistry courses to be shut down at the University of Bradford
Closures are part of a trend seen across UK universities
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NewsHow emergency services prepare for major chemical spills
Meet the experts who prepare emergency responders for the worst case scenario
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NewsEleven chemists who have been honoured with a blue plaque
Celebrating the link between historic figures and the buildings they lived and worked in
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NewsAnalysis reveals ethnic minority applicants’ grant success rates still lower
Engineering and physical sciences’ review panels in UK more likely to award white researchers
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NewsGreen light for UK carbon capture projects – but will they deliver?
The country is already behind on targets to capture carbon dioxide and is playing catch up
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus five years on: Anya Gryn’ova
A computational chemist has moved from being group leader at a German research institute to an associate computational chemistry prof in the UK
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OpinionChemists amid coronavirus five years on: Lee Cronin
A University of Glasgow chemist describes how Covid-19 helped establish the principle of chemputation and spur a chemistry revolution
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News1.2GHz NMR magnet arrives at University of Warwick
New instrument is 20% more powerful than the UK’s current largest NMR spectrometer
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NewsAtomic Energy Authority chief executive to head up UKRI
Ian Chapman to take reins at UK’s main research funder after Ottoline Leyser steps down later this year