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UK plays catch up in global battery race

Brexit put the brakes on investment for years, but champions of the tech say there is now a chance to make up ground. A new £130M research centre is on the way and plans for the first gigafactory are in hand

18 Feb 2021

Climate

Report into WannaCry cyberattack points to vulnerabilities in UK health system

The WannaCry hack was relatively unsophisticated and could have been prevented with basic IT security best practice. There are greater cyber threats out there and the NHS must ensure it is better protected

06 Nov 2017

News

Wellcome Trust investment in health research to top £1B for first time in 2018

20 Sep 2017

Health

UK science committee chair calls for more women MPs nominees

Ex-MEP Vicky Ford joins UK Parliament science committee following storm over all-male line-up

14 Sep 2017

News

Will China take the lead in carbon capture and storage technologies?

With most of Europe’s demonstration projects on hold, it may come down to others to pioneer commercial use of carbon capture and storage and bring costs down, says Ronald Oxburgh, member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology

02 May 2012

News

Huge boost to UK university spin-outs as £150M private fund is launched

A private equity firm is to raise the largest specialist fund in the world dedicated to commercialising university R&D. The money will be invested in partnership with three of the UK’s leading research universities

16 Feb 2012

News

Cut agriculture for the sake of science

The UK may have used its veto on treaty change, but it will support increased spending on R&D from 2014 – 2020, as proposed in Horizon 2020. Cutting agriculture subsidies could pay for this, Business Minister Vince Cable tells Science|Business

15 Dec 2011

News

UK’s first national technology and innovation centre opens with £140M over six years

The first of six centres, based on Germany’s Fraunhofer model, will specialise in high value manufacturing

11 Oct 2011

News

£8.5M investment targets growth in the UK space industry

11 Oct 2011

News

Artificial intelligence company attracts $5.5M from VTB Capital

11 Oct 2011

News

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UK plays catch up in global battery race

Report into WannaCry cyberattack points to vulnerabilities in UK health system

Wellcome Trust investment in health research to top £1B for first time in 2018

UK science committee chair calls for more women MPs nominees

Will China take the lead in carbon capture and storage technologies?

Huge boost to UK university spin-outs as £150M private fund is launched

Cut agriculture for the sake of science

UK’s first national technology and innovation centre opens with £140M over six years

£8.5M investment targets growth in the UK space industry

Artificial intelligence company attracts $5.5M from VTB Capital

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