Insights

Real-time nitrate sensing holds the potential for significant yield increases, cost savings, and environmental impact reduction. 

As part of our sustainability work, we’ve been delving into the significance of evolving global arrangements for carbon pricing and taxation, and the implications for our clients. It has led us to a new perspective. Sooner than you might think, policy changes will give product and service companies access to a new revenue stream from carbon sequestration. Global CO2 goals are long-term, but the business opportunities are unfolding now.

From cosmetics to melanin detection, an analytical model of how light interacts with skin opens a pathway to simplifying the design of low cost sensors.

How you look is a complex interaction between the light that falls on your skin and how in interacts with different skin constituents. Our new whitepaper outlines an analytical model for light-tissue interaction that allows...

When a client comes to us with a project that will transform a business to engage with entirely new opportunities in a sustainable way we are more than ready to take up that challenge.

Biomimetics - learning from nature. Spiders that can jump six times their body length - tough research when you're an arachnophobic engineer.

PHAs provide us with a vast range of potential properties from biodegradable plastics. Can engineers now just specify biodegradable plastics in all their products?

In April of this year the use of neonicotinoid in all outdoor crop applications was banned. So why are these particular insecticides particularly harmful to bees?

Could we replace fossil fuel-derived polymers with plastics that have been made from renewable resources and/or could biodegrade naturally at the end of their life?

Is bottle water really as 'contaminated' as the media has reported today? Steve Thomas adds some perspective to the report.

Reporting from CES: this year was definitely the year of ‘beauty tech’, with more and more ways for consumers to personalize their regimes and treatments for their needs.

Metamaterials are artificially engineered materials that possess properties not found in nature