All United Kingdom articles – Page 8
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News100 UK scientists receive more than £100 million for blue skies research
Fourth funding round of government’s future leaders programme aims to turn scientific ideas into products and services
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NewsFirst Covid-19 challenge study working with live virus planned for the UK
Pending ethics panel approval, healthy volunteers would be infected with Sars-CoV-2 to help understand disease and test vaccines
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NewsPhysical sciences funder wants UK women to go for bigger grants
Just five applications for grants over £10 million received from women since 2007
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NewsUK chemistry pipeline loses almost all of its Black, Asian and other ethnic minority chemists after undergraduate studies
Black students are only one quarter as likely to study for a PhD than their white counterparts
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NewsParacetamol, ibuprofen and other painkillers may harm those suffering from chronic pain
Opioids and benzodiazepines should also be avoided in favour of non-drug therapies for treating chronic pain, recommends UK clinical practice body
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NewsResearch excellence framework resumes after four month hiatus
New timetable and guidance released following coronavirus shut down
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NewsChemistry departments across the UK tackle herculean task of reopening
Face masks and hand sanitiser the norm as researchers return to work
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NewsRoadmap plans route out of pandemic purgatory for UK research
Ambition applauded by science community but researchers yet to be sold on its substance
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NewsEU science programme will be hurt by Brexit but will survive
Network analysis suggests excellent science pillar of Horizon framework will be hardest hit
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NewsCRUK warns of £150m cut to research funding
Charity calls for government support as coronavirus hits fundraising efforts
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OpinionMaking the right call on dexamethasone
The way we do things in research has to change in life or death situations
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NewsProspective students anxious over financial future at UK universities
Chemistry departments collaborating to ensure teaching goes ahead as planned
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NewsAmid pandemic, UK is on track to double science funding by 2024
Government making good on promise of increasing R&D spending to £22 billion
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NewsVaccine manufacturing centre to be rushed into service a year early by UK government
Injection of new funding will mean centre opens in 2021 as licensing deal also agreed to boost vaccine capabilities
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NewsPlant biologist Ottoline Leyser to head UK’s leading funding body
Leyser will guide government’s plan to increase spending on science to 2.4% of GDP by 2027
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NewsStatistician Adrian Smith to be next president of the Royal Society
Director of the Alan Turing Institute will take up the post in November
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NewsSupport for English universities hit by pandemic falls short of hopes
Financial package brings forwards funds from next year’s student fees and research to ease cashflow problems
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NewsUK seeks to scale-up Covid-19 testing but large gaps in capabilities remain
Universities and research labs are being brought in to help with testing but 100,000 tests per day by the end of April still looks overly ambitious
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NewsUK’s largest funder aims to raise $8 billion in three weeks for coronavirus research
The Wellcome Trust’s Covid-Zero initiative calls on businesses to bridge the funding shortfall
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NewsUK researchers receive £20m to start coronavirus treatment research
Two vaccine trials among six projects that win funding