Would you really trust a robot to care for you in old age?
"We’re not trying to build Terminator," quips Rich Walker, the director of Shadow Robot, the innovative firm behind these advanced prosthetics. With his distinctive long hair, beard, and spectacles, Walker…
The huge sums energy firms get to not provide power
Consider the early hours of 3 June, a time when a powerful gale was sweeping across Scotland. One would naturally assume this to be prime operating conditions for the colossal…
Do UN climate talks have a point any more?
A photograph taken ten years ago at COP21 in Paris serves as a stark relic of a bygone era. In it, dozens of world leaders, immaculately suited, lined up before…
UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space
What once belonged solely to the realm of science fiction – a fully operational factory orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth, dedicated to producing advanced materials – is rapidly becoming…
I went to rural Wales to bathe in starlight and the Milky Way blew me away
However, hope, like the faintest glimmer of a distant galaxy, persists. Four-and-a-half hours later, at a patient 22:30, the sky begins its slow, magnificent transformation. The clouds, as if by…
Unexplored deep-water worlds in Caribbean revealed for the first time
For six intensive weeks, operating relentlessly 24 hours a day, researchers aboard the British research ship RRS James Cook pushed the boundaries of deep-sea exploration. They deployed state-of-the-art cameras, advanced…
Being an Essex girl never held me back, says spacecraft engineer
Sian Cleaver, a 36-year-old from Chelmsford, Essex, embodies a powerful narrative of ambition and resilience, proving that geographical stereotypes hold no sway over scientific aspiration. She asserts that the often-derogatory…
Norfolk Wildlife Trust buys land to create new reserve.
In a landmark acquisition marking its centenary, the Norfolk Wildlife Trust (NWT) has announced the purchase of 336 acres of land at Wood Norton, near its existing Foxley Wood site,…
Ancient hedge laying used to boost Blagdon lake biodiversity
Blagdon Lake, a sprawling 440-acre reservoir nestled within the picturesque Mendip Hills of Somerset, is more than just a critical source of drinking water and a renowned trout fishery. It…
Campaigners push to protect chalk streams in Carshalton
Chalk streams are ecological marvels, distinguished by their crystal-clear, mineral-rich waters and gravelly beds. They emerge from springs nestled within porous chalk bedrock, which acts as a natural, highly effective…
















