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Compute and Contribute: Data Centres’ Role in the Green Grid

As the world accelerates its AI ambitions through a wave of data centres, including new supercomputing hubs, one challenge looms large: power. Meeting the scale, speed, and resilience demands of AI workloads will require more than just grid connections.

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How social sciences are essential in the UK's net zero transition

In this piece, Professor Karen Bickerstaff, Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow and Lead on the ACCESS (Advancing Capacity in Climate and Environment Social Science) report Making a Net Zero Society – Follow the Social Science, highlights how the social sciences offer essential perspectives to support a rapid transition to a net zero UK.

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SHAPEing the Decarbonisation Transition in the Built Environment - Balancing Efficiency and Resilience

The integration of SHAPE research in UK’s route to Net Zero is essential for addressing the complex challenges of decarbonising the built environment. SHAPE research contributes to understanding how policies are received by the public, how they align with cultural norms, and how they can be framed to foster engagement and compliance.

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How We Can Use Advanced Materials to Make the UK a Key Link in the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain

Global supply chains are growing more complex and more fraught, and evidence for that trend is particularly acute in the case of semiconductors. The tiny ‘chips’ encapsulate a world of material, economic and political concerns. However, by investing in advanced materials, there is an opportunity for the UK to establish a substantial foothold in future supply chains.

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How Learned and Professional Societies can play a role in evidence-based knowledge sharing

As the proliferation of views, all claiming to be authoritative, has grown over time, so has the need for trustworthy analysis and verification of facts. As guardians of expertise and best practice, Learned and Professional Societies can play a key role in this.

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An atom’s eye view inside materials: from cells to circuit boards, and meteorites to magnets

The UK’s ISIS neutron and muon source has welcomed over 60,000 scientists since it began operations in 1984. The variety of ISIS research is demonstrated in this blog through the perspective of three ISIS scientists who have been fellows of the Foundation Future Leaders (FFL) programme.

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The Rise of AI: Opportunities and risks

AI is revolutionising our world offering incredible opportunities while posing significant risks. This blog investigates the opportunities of an AI driven society and how to mitigate the risks associated.

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The Silman Fund - Supporting diversity at our events

In the spirit of widening participation to our events, The Foundation is launching 'The Silman Fund'. Our CEO, Gavin Costigan explores how it works and why it is important.

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Selling Less of the Family Silver: the Key Challenge for Industrial Policy

The Industrial Strategy Green Paper, with its strong sectoral approach, represents a vital opportunity to revitalise the UK economy. But it has nothing to say about the key barrier to achieving this, the early trade sale of many of our most promising science and technology based companies to foreign corporations, and the truncation of further entrepreneurial growth in the UK.

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Changing how we think about ageing: Joining up medical sciences, social sciences and the humanities

Achieving attitudinal change to ageing would have far-reaching implications for how we retire, treat and care for older people, fund research and care, and understand intergenerational relations.

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