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The Government is planning to make the UK the best destination in the world for researchers, making sure that it continues to attract the brightest and best from the UK and from overseas.

Cornish Tin Limited, UK, a Cornwall-based mineral exploration company, has been granted planning consent for a six-month Phase One exploration drilling programme of 33 diamond drill holes.

Project is one of five feasibility studies that aim to demonstrate zero-emission freight technology studies at scale on UK roads.

Self-adhesive tape can 'lift' microplastic particles from sample.

The Midlands Industrial Ceramics Group (MICG) has secured £18.27mln in government funding provided through UK Research and Innovation’s flagship Strength in Places Fund (SIPF), to establish itself as global centre for advanced ceramics.

The University of Sheffield claims it is to play a key role in the UK’s new Manufacturing Made Smarter research centres.

Highlights include snodynamic therapy of cancer using a novel TiO2-based nanoparticles, the structural, optical and dielectric properties of Al/Mn doped ZnO nanoparticles and enhanced photocatalytic performance of europium doped TiO2 film.

This issue is guest edited by Professor Roger Lewis.

The Coal Authority project will ensure excess mine water from prolonged rainfall is collected to keep properties safe.

New research suggests material creates green energy through mechanical force.

Advanced materials and manufacturing highlighted as key area of focus.

An international team of researchers has discovered a quantum state of matter that can be ‘tuned’ at will – and it’s 10 times more tuneable than existing theories can explain. This level of manipulability opens enormous possibilities for next-generation nanotechnologies and quantum computing.

A prototype charging system for wearable devices has been developed at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Steel Council will today discuss plans to cut emissions in UK sector.

Industry and academic collaboration could see enhanced life and faster charging.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have upgraded their laser frequency-comb instrument to simultaneously measure three airborne greenhouse gases – nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and water vapor – plus the major air pollutants ozone and carbon monoxide.

A new laser that generates quantum particles can recycle lost energy for highly efficient, low threshold laser applications, researchers say.

Featuring papers considering a modification of the Wilshire strain equation, enhancing mechanical properties of an Mg–Zn–Ca alloy via extrusion and a review of processing, microstructure adjustments, and mechanical properties of dual phase steels.

In a new report, the Aldersgate Group calls on the UK government to accelerate progress on resource efficiency to secure benefits in terms of emission savings, reduced environmental impacts, job creation and economic resilience.

INEOS Chemicals Grangemouth, INEOS FPS and Petroineos, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Acorn CCS Project to work together to develop Scotland’s first carbon capture and storage system linking Scotland’s industrial heartland to the Acorn CO2 transport and storage system in North East Scotland by 2027.