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Two researchers working in a lab

Spinout Spotlight: Simplifying the future of RNA medicines

RNA Forge is advancing RNA drug development. Creating better manufacturing technologies and offering specialised analytical services to ensure manufacturing challenges don't stand in the way of life-changing treatments reaching patients.
Syl and Geo post with their certificates

Success at the 45th Cement and Concrete Science Conference

Congratulations to Geo who won the student poster 1st prize and Sylvia who won the oral presentation 1st prize at the 45th Cement and Concrete Science Conference.
SYSC feature

Research Feature: A greener, healthier and fairer South Yorkshire: how research is changing our region

University of Sheffield researchers have been partnering with communities, businesses and policymakers to address some of South Yorkshire's biggest environmental and social challenges, from clean energy and transport to food systems and air quality.
Lycurgus Cup
Credit: Ed Cartledge, Sort of Films

Technician cracks 1,600-year-old mystery to replicate Roman masterpiece

The remarkable colour-changing effect observed in a famous Roman masterpiece has been successfully reproduced in quantity for the first time in 1,600 years by a University of Sheffield technician.
Professor William Zimmerman

Cracked, the cold case of why boiling water freezes faster

Microbubbles and the Mpemba effect: Professor Will Zimmerman appears in the Times and comments on a physical chemistry mystery.

How Materials Science applies to Formula E

Taking our Artefacts Project home

This time of year would usually see our 2nd Year students working on the Artefacts Project, where they work in teams to reverse engineer a common household object, but this year we've had to take an alternative approach to this project.