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  • Future of cities: a visual history of the future

    Report exploring the ways future cities have been depicted in print and on film over the last 100 years.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: Future of cities
    • Organisation: Government Office for Science
    • Updated:
  • BIS research strategy 2014 to 2015

    This strategy details the research being done to provide the department’s evolving evidence base. BIS research paper 185.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: BIS research papers
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
    • Updated:
  • Nitrofuran veterinary residues in food

    A review of issues with nitrofuran residues in food and recommendations for how food safety enforcement officers make decisions.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Government Chemist
    • Updated:
  • Science, technology, engineering and maths: research with young people

    Describes young people’s attitudes, beliefs, motivations and behaviours that affect their decisions on subject choice and career paths.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
    • Updated:
  • Attitudes to animal research in 2014

    A report by Ipsos MORI commissioned by BIS looking at the UK public’s attitudes to the use of animals in research.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
    • Updated:
  • STEM interventions: teacher research

    Research by the Institute of Education, University of London to understand teachers’ information requirements for STEM initiatives.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
    • Updated:
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in water: new measurement methods

    The analysis of novel methods for accurately measuring levels of the pollutant, PBDEs, in water using real river samples.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Government Chemist
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  • Horse meat in food: limits of detection of 3 methods of analysis

    An evaluation of the limits of detection of 3 methods routinely used by public analysts when testing meat samples for horse meat DNA.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Food allergy: a forensic perspective

    A review of the latest allergen measurement techniques and an outline of how allergen cases are being dealt with in UK courts.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Government Chemist
    • Updated:
  • National Measurement System: knowledge exchange programme

    The National Mesurement System knowledge exchange programme 2014.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: National Measurement Office
    • Updated:
  • Future of cities: origins, meanings and uses

    Report looking at how the changing language on cities is shaping urban development.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: Future of cities
    • Organisation: Government Office for Science
    • Updated:
  • Japan: development in space programmes

    Report, including opportunities to engage with space superpower.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
    • Updated:
  • Science and innovation: rates of return to investment

    Synthesizes the evidence base on the rate of return to public investment in science and innovation.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
    • Updated:
  • Case for public support of innovation at the sector, technology and challenge area levels

    Sets out the barriers to innovation in 24 areas of economic interest.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
    • Updated:
  • Insurance Contract Law

    This is the second report of the Law Commission's Insurance Contract Law project.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Organisation: Law Commission
    • Updated:
  • Commercial spaceplane certification and operations: UK government review

    Operation and regulatory review of the requirements for commercial spaceplane use within the UK by 2018.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Commercial spaceflight
    • Organisation: Civil Aviation Authority and 4 others
    • Updated:
  • Statistics of scientific procedures on living animals, Great Britain 2013

    Annual statistics relating to scientific procedures performed on living animals in accordance with Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics of scientific procedures on living animals and 1 others
    • Organisation: Home Office
    • Updated:
  • Data to support the implementation of National DNA Database

    The DNA database is moving to a new, more sensitive profiling technique known as DNA-17.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: National DNA Database documents
    • Organisation: Home Office
    • Updated:
  • Future of cities: living in the city

    Report looking at how urban living may change over the next 50 years.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: Future of cities
    • Organisation: Government Office for Science
    • Updated:
  • Future of cities: urban form and infrastructure

    Report analysing urban form and infrastructure in the UK, and looking forward at possible urban forms over the next 50 years.

    • Document type: Research and analysis
    • Part of a collection: Future of cities
    • Organisation: Government Office for Science
    • Updated: