The Spinoff Prize 2024
Credit: Sébastien Thibault Scientists wear a variety of hats. They are researchers, expanding the boundaries of human knowledge; administrators, mastering
Blowout! Satellites reveal one of the largest methane leaks on record
Nature, Published online: 11 July 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-02267-y An oil well in Kazakhstan dumped more than 100,000 tonnes of the potent
Most accurate clock in history made by ‘quieting’ atoms
Physicists have built the most accurate clock ever: one that gains or loses only one second every 40 billion years1.
A Trojan horse for thirsty tumours
Craig Ramirez and Andrew Hauser used to brainstorm ideas about their research over beers.Credit: Ariana Drehsler for Springer Nature Finalist
A light-touch approach to intracellular delivery
Trince’s LumiPore device allows a mix of cells, and the molecules to go inside them, to be targeted with a
Infrared spectrometry guides cancer treatment
Hemmel Amrania developed Digistain’s infrared spectrometer.Credit: Chris Ratcliffe for Springer Nature In the corner of a physics laboratory at Imperial
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ICODOS has demonstrated its technology at a pilot e-methanol plant.Credit: A. Bramsiepe/KIT ICODOS: Fuelling industry with waste gases Methanol produced
Cellular adaptation to cancer therapy along a resistance continuum
Vasan, N., Baselga, J. & Hyman, D. M. A view on drug resistance in cancer. Nature 575, 299–309 (2019). Article
First fossil chromosomes discovered in freeze-dried mammoth skin
The 3D structure of chromosomes (artist’s illustration) was not thought to survive the ravages of time, but scientists examining mammoth
How the watermelon got its sweet taste and rosy hue
Scientists have mapped the genomes of watermelon and their wild — and often bitter — relatives in unprecedented detail, in