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Artificial lighting thought to be more wildlife-friendly than white light could encourage algal blooms.

Here are ten university spin-offs that just missed making the final eight in the 2021 Spinoff Prize competition, but are worth keeping an eye on.

Use of the toxic pollutant in fuel was curbed in the 1980s, but it lingers in airborne particles.

Start-up companies spawned at universities are transforming research findings into commercial offerings for biomedicine and technology.

One year on from their nomination, Nature finds out what progress these young companies have made.

The start-up Cambridge Photon Technology is developing photovoltaic materials that take full advantage of the Sun’s spectrum.

Crop scientist whose high-yield hybrid rice fed billions.

The start-up Neuronostics is using the brain waves of large numbers of people to assess an individual’s risk of seizure disorders more quickly and accurately.

Start-up GrayMatters Health wants to improve treatment for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder by combining two neuroscience techniques.

The start-up ONA Therapeutics is developing an antibody directed at cells that initiate metastasis in cancer.

Start-up company HighT-Tech has developed a technique to make alloys that could improve catalysts or be used to build better batteries.

The start-up C2i Genomics is hoping to improve liquid biopsies with its platform for detecting rare tumour DNA in blood samples.

Partial SARS-CoV-2 sequences from early outbreaks in Wuhan were removed from a US government database by the scientists who deposited them.

The start-up Bilitech hopes organoids could be used as an alternative to liver transplants, to save lives and money.

Start-up Sibylla Biotech has developed a drug-discovery platform to look for protein folding intermediates to target with existing therapies.

Death cults in early medieval Europe included inspections of mortal remains.

Researchers isolate the protein thought to help migratory birds navigate, and astronomers pinpoint the stars that could view Earth as an exoplanet.

The Gaia database is used to identify stars from which astronomers on orbiting planets could see Earth transiting the Sun in the past, present and future.

A molecular-scale pump whose operation is driven by a catalytic process when in the presence of chemical fuel is autonomous, within an operating window, as long as the fuel lasts.