All United Kingdom articles – Page 7
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News
Dispute over pensions and pay leads to strikes at 60 UK universities
Lecturers and support staff have been on strike for eight days and further action may be on the way
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Brexit uncertainty leaves science under threat as general election looms
The winding path to the UK leaving the EU has already taken a toll on the nation’s science
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UK considers what life would look like outside Europe’s huge research programme
If the UK left Horizon Europe an extra £1.5 billion per year would be needed to make up the shortfall
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News
Gargantuan clean-up effort after Novichok nerve agent poisoning laid bare
UK government chemists spent months analysing thousands of samples and formulating new ways to decontaminate all manner of materials
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News
Little has changed in UK drug policy a decade on from sacking of David Nutt
Claims of political interference and exclusion of experts still dog advisory drug council
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News
Queen’s speech reveals new research agency planned for UK
Government plans transformative research body based on US’s Arpa to deliver new technologies
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Research
Bronze age tin from Israeli shipwrecks was mined in Britain
Isotope analysis matches metal to mines in Devon and Cornwall suggesting ancient trade route existed
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News
Head of UK’s overarching research body to step down
Mark Walport, who led the creation of UK Research and Innvoation, will retire in 2020
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Fourth UK science minister appointed in just two years as Chris Skidmore returns
Post has been hit by resignations over handling of Brexit
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Research would be a ‘casualty’ if English higher education review acted on, Lords warn
Many other areas could suffer too including student lab practicals and infrastructure maintenance
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Immigration reforms unveiled to attract leading scientists to the UK
Long-awaited changes welcomed but the spectre of a no-deal Brexit has the science community on edge
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Podcast
Cyclopropane
Chemistry’s tastiest bonds for an explosive anaesthetic that was as useful as it was dangerous
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News
UK government announces £91 million increase for university research funding
Half of the money will go to universities rather than specific projects
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Opinion
Does the higher education review augur well for universities?
Political winds are buffeting higher education once more
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‘Build a bold vision for UK research,’ scientists urge next prime minister
Academies, charities and universities unite in appeal to Conservative leadership hopefuls to invest in science
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Podcast
2C psychedelics
A class of hallucinogenic phenethylamines, explored by the 'godfather of psychedelics' Alexander Shulgin and sadly implicated in a tragedy at a 2017 music festival
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News
Switching UK’s gas network to hydrogen perfectly possible, report finds
Repurposing the natural gas network would cut out country’s biggest source of carbon emissions
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Missing out on €100bn EU fund after Brexit would be ‘major blow to British science’
UK needs to secure access to Europe’s multi-million-pound research fund as soon as possible, according to Nobel laureate Paul Nurse
