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The latest science news from areas such as physics, chemistry, biology and health, along with the ever expanding field of materials science and space exploration.

Large Hadron Collider now powering nearby homes through heat exchange system

Discover how a heat exchange system at CERN turns waste heat from the Large Hadron Collider into heating for homes and businesses in France.

Biosolutions: Engineering a sustainable future, a path to net zero, and economic resilience

Explore the topic of biosolutions and how they are helping to drive a more sustainable future in the UK and beyond.

Electron beam technology emerges as a new weapon against PFAS pollution

Electron beam technology offers a powerful new method to break down PFAS pollution in water and soil, providing an efficient alternative.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are 17 global targets designed to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all by 2030. Our latest science news includes updates from organisations looking to tackle Goal 4 and Goal 17.

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VTT is advancing sustainable materials with physics-based modelling and AI

VTT has advanced its Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) toolbox, known as ProperTune, to fabricate sustainable materials.

Neutrino detectors: What are they good for?

Discover how neutrino detectors are useful for more than just detecting neutrinos, also discovering a variety of other theoretical particles.

Using wastewater-based epidemiology to track viral disease dynamics

Researchers in Japan are developing a wastewater-based early warning system and mass diagnosis tool for COVID-19 and other diseases.

Towards underground crystal growth and detector production in searching for ghost particles

Deciphering the origin of the Universe requires new crystal growth experiments to reduce their background from cosmogenic induced radioisotopes.

My inner dinosaur – what can palaeontology teach us about human anatomy?

Professor Dr P Martin Sander of the University Bonn's Paleontology Department takes us on the fascinating journey that forged human evolution and explains how...

Palaeolithic human DNA discovery reveals how humans migrated to the UK

Analyses of the oldest DNA in the UK have discovered that two distinct groups of humans migrated to Britain at the end of the last ice age

Mass spectrometers for environmental applications

In the midst of a climate crisis, Hiden Analytical are using sustainable mass spectrometers in order to create sustainable technology for energy production. With the...

Animal evolution may have been accelerated by Earth’s fluctuating oxygen levels

The process of animal evolution could have been greatly altered by ‘wild fluctuations’ in oxygen levels, according to a team of scientists.

First animals on Earth may have evolved earlier than fossils suggest

The first animals may have evolved sooner than fossils suggest, according to a study on the survival strategy of polar marine creatures.

Scientists discover that graphene electrodes can break water molecules

Scientists are using graphene to pull water molecules apart, which could help generate hydrogen fuel from water.

New protein crystallisation method is a major advancement in structural biology

A new cell-free protein crystallisation method provides major developments in the field of structural biology.

Extinct species that lived amongst dinosaurs discovered after 150m years

Researchers from Smithsonian have discovered a new extinct species of reptile that inhabited North America during the Jurassic age.

Palaeontologists reveal new factors behind human evolution

Palaeontologists have revealed that human evolution is caused by increasing brain size and an increasingly juvenile cranial shape

Tetrapods discovery provides exciting insights about evolution

Scientists from the University of Bristol have discovered that early tetrapods had fewer skull bones, which limited their evolution

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