Cement that can cool itself by reflecting light on the outside and releasing heat from its surface could help buildings stay ...

Alzheimer’s Society, Innovate UK and Challenge Works have launched the Longitude Prize on Dementia – a competition with a £4million prize fund to find innovators who can create ground-breaking ...

A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which ...

Astronomers have picked up evidence of an Earth-sized world, distinct from the previously hypothesised Planet Nine and Planet X, that might be warping the orbits of objects beyond Neptune ...

Free and unimpeded internet access is no longer a convenience or a luxury. It is high time it was made a human right ...

A reader explains the adaptations that let squirrels make this gravity-defying manoeuvre - which a cat could only dream of ...

The 100-metre sprint was won by a machine with a time of 21.50 seconds. It was one of many events at the games, which saw 280 ...

Feedback is horrified to discover that the owner of one of the internet's favourite cats, Pépito, has taken the crypto ...

Robin Hammond's photographs show the conservation battle to eradicate three species introduced to New Zealand, in order to ...

Inveterate cyclist Matt Sparkes, who has been knocked off his bike by human-driven cars several times, wonders if the arrival ...

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