UKRI (UK Research and Innovation)

International collaboration is vital to ensure that the extraordinary potential of research and innovation can enrich and improve the lives of people in the UK and around the world. UKRI helps the UK’s research and innovation system to thrive by supporting UK researchers and businesses to work with people, organisations and facilities around the world.

Biology teaching resources Developed by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council for primary and secondary biology and bioscience education Borrow the Moon Apply to borrow real lunar rock and meteorite samples, and find teaching resources to run the activities with your class Physics teaching resources Free resources from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to support students in their physics education

Around 85% of the waste found in our oceans is made from plastic. Much of this will wash up on our beaches with a significant impact on the coastal environment, wildlife such as seabirds and seals, and potentially human health. For decades people have been collecting and recycling the plastic found on beaches but is there a better way to deal with the growing tide of plastic waste? Ocean plastics are central to wider research around putting a value on waste and what happens to it when collected.

Education in prison has traditionally focused on basic literacy and numeracy. Often overlooking the broader potential to equip inmates with the practical skills and career pathways that can support successful reintegration into society is often overlooked. Without opportunities to develop vocational competencies, prisoners often struggle to find employment when they are released, one of the key factors linked to reoffending.

UK astronomers are celebrating the launch of the Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which began last night from a mountaintop in Chile. A milestone that the UK astronomy community has spent more than a decade preparing for, it’s the start of one of the most ambitious studies of the cosmos ever undertaken. Movie of the universe For the next 10 years, the LSST will capture the entire southern sky to create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe.

Every year, UK government departments create millions of digital records, emails, documents, and audiovisual files that form the nation’s democratic memory. Yet most remain inaccessible, locked away by scale, sensitivity, and the cost of manual review. This limits transparency, accountability, and long‑term historical record‑keeping.

Backed by a £60 million investment, one lab will focus on creating open-source AI that can run on widely available hardware. The other will pioneer new approaches enabling AI to learn without vast centralised computing power. The two UK AI research labs will be led by University College London (UCL) and the University of Oxford. The labs will work in collaboration with partners including the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and Imperial College London.

This development potentially paves the way for more personalised treatments in future. The study, published today in Circulation and funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), was led by the University of Oxford. HyperScore The team developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-derived score, called ‘HyperScore’, designed to estimate the extent of damage caused by high blood pressure across multiple organs before any major cardiovascular event.

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden have completed the first experiment using one of the new HiLUX laser systems. These are based at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Central Laser Facility (CLF) on the Harwell Campus.

A rare condition is a condition that affects less than one in 2,000 people in the population. Though individually rare, these conditions are collectively common affecting one in 17 people. Getting the right diagnosis and treatment as early as possible is critical for many conditions but many of these diseases are not well understood, making them hard to detect.