Spatially offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) and its surface-enhanced variant, SESORS, have emerged as transformative techniques in analytical chemistry and biomedical diagnostics, enabling non-invasive...

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Understanding and monitoring of preservation fluids is essential for ensuring the long-term integrity of fluid-preserved specimens in natural history collections. However, analytical characterization ...

Anton Muscatelli and Miles Padgett think through the deeper issues in UK research – from cost recovery and dual support to doctoral training and organisational structure – that won’t be solved by simp...

Wind, solar and other renewables hit a new high last year but the government is still some way off its clean power target.

I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Mammographic radiomic features were able to predict occult invasive disease in core-needle biopsy–proven ductal carcinoma in situ in patients from three countries.

Bamboo is a highly renewable resource, and its cellulose fibres can be turned into a hard, mouldable plastic for use in cars and appliances

Nick Stone discusses some of the many ways in which light can be used for diagnostic and therapeutic applications

Metamaterials are 3D engineered structures with properties not found in nature.

We designed and optimized a dual-functional photothermal agent that performs as a nanoheater and real-time optical thermometer by leveraging gold nanoparticle (AuNP) self-assembly and anti-Stokes ther...