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Supporting future climate innovators
Thirty minutes south-west of Glasgow, at a site called Fairlie Moore, ten university teams spent a long weekend this August launching rockets into the sky.
The event marked the end of the first full year of Launch 4 Change (L4C), an ARIA-funded project working to widen access to science and engineering across the UK, one rocket at a time.

The missing sense in machine intelligence
Olfactory Perception and the breakthroughs it could unlock
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From signals to decisions
The Forecasting Tipping Points programme enters Phase 2
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Olfactory Perception: our latest funding call
Programme Director Claire Donoghue, on the journey towards her first programme
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Opportunity spaces: three years in
A note from our CEO on our opportunity space evolution
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The hardware that science hasn’t built yet
How Amodo Design helps turn technical bottlenecks into possibilities
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The next companies coming out of UK science
Chosen from over 1,400 applicants, meet Encode Fellowship Cohort 2
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ARIA Summit 2025
Over three days of talks, panels, and collaborative sessions, we heard from Creators leading transformative research across our opportunity spaces, saw the real-world impact of emerging technologies, and took inspiration from pioneering voices across the R&D ecosystem.

Giving robot hands a sense of slip
Touchlab’s Dr Zaki Hussein and Shadow Robot’s Rich Walker discuss TACTO
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Doubling down on Earth-scale data
ARIA Creators, Asterisk Labs, on how Clouds Decoded become Earth Compress
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HASH – making AI legible in the real world
ARIA Creators, HASH, on what it takes to make Safeguarded AI usable
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