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A new spinout will use AI and innovative experimental methods to improve the manufacturing of products such as drugs and fertilisers.

Cardiff researchers have been named winners of a prestigious prize which celebrates discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.

Chemical method identified to tackle hard-to-recycle packaging material, cutting landfill waste Engineers have modelled a new way to recycle polystyrene that could become the first viable way of making the material reusable.

A professor at the University of Warwick is exploring the chemistry of the galaxy far, far away this Star Wars Day, May the 4th.

A team based in The University of Manchester's Department of Materials are leading research into inorganic high-entropy materials.

Eye-catching images by researchers at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) that highlight "A Moment of Discovery" have been showcased as part of an annual competition. The winning image was submitted by PhD candidate, Giada Benedetti (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health), and shows "The explosive potential of gastrointestinal organoids".

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From research to explain what causes a migrane, to funding that will allow researchers to deliver unprecedented imaging of the beating human heart, here is some quick-read news from across Imperial.

Key highlights Tiny channels of nanometer scale (1 nanometer = 1/billionth of a meter) are found in nature that allow substances to pass through and filter out impurities.

Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From an award to celebrate outstanding international female scientists, to a new way to map solar cell movements, here is some quick-read news from across Imperial.

Rain drops on window glasses surface with cloudy background. Natural Pattern of raindrops isolated on cloudy background.

An electronic glove that enables movement in the paralysed hand of stroke survivors - supporting their rehabilitation - has been invented by a team from the University of Southampton.

The new collaborative base for over 500 researchers in chemical, environmental and biomolecular sciences has opened at the University of Birmingham.

Researchers at The University of Warwick are among four world-class teams receiving a share of £18 million to pursue transformational bioscience research programmes.

A company specialising in expanding organoids at scale is preparing to leave Cardiff Medicentre. Cellesce, a spin-out from Cardiff and Bath Universities, has been a tenant at the Medicentre since 2017.

Research by Cardiff scientists that could radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions that result from the chemical synthesis sector has been shortlisted for an IChemE Global Award. The team from the Max-Planck-Cardiff Centre on the Fundamentals of Heterogeneous Catalysis (FUNCAT), have reported a brand-new method of creating cyclohexanone oxime - a pre-cursor to the plastic material Nylon-6.

In a pioneering application of operando spectroscopy, researchers at The University of Manchester at Harwell (UoMaH), in collaboration colleagues at Diamond Light Source, University College London, Un

The Institute for Digital Molecular Design and Fabrication (DigiFAB) hosted a hackathon themed around large language models in science.

Network will find and investigate materials for applications in renewable energy, drug delivery, water purification and more Renewable energy, manufacturing, drug delivery and water filtration are some of the wide-ranging challenges researchers are aiming to make impacts in, following the launch of a new materials research network.

A greener, faster and more effective way of recycling plastics is being developed by researchers at Cardiff University.

Common drugs such as paracetamol and ibuprofen can be made from a chemical from pine trees instead of crude oil products. A team of scientists, from the University of Bath's Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability have found a way to create two of the world's most common painkillers, paracetamol and ibuprofen, out of a compound found in pine trees, which is also a waste product from the paper industry.

A new chemical process that removes chlorine in drinking water has reached the final of a £4m innovation competition. Researchers from Cardiff University have teamed up with the water filtration systems specialists, Origin Aqua , to develop a product that disinfects water, kills viruses and bacteria and removes chlorine by-products.