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Whether plastic or natural, Christmas trees are generally bad for the environment. However, a new chemical process could recycle dead trees into all kinds of useful products.
Scientists edge closer to truly personalised medicine thanks to advances in genome sequencing.
The crucial phase of our discovery of black holes took place in a suitably dark period of human history – World War II.
It’s not as simple as saying you won’t ‘feel the benefit’.
A few visits to the gym or a short jog around the block in the week before departure isn’t enough preparation.
What to do with those Christmas dinner leftovers.
Christmas annuals are still found countless trees but how did they become some popular in the first place?
Follow these food safety tips to keep everyone happy and healthy this festive season.
The last adult is leaving the White House after a shock decision by the president to pull troops out of Syria.
Cheap, powerful, and more widely used by greater numbers of people, drones are causing a headache at supposedly secure locations worldwide.
Thousands of young carers are supporting family members unrecognised and wary of asking for help.
Farmers are closest to the land and their livestock, and have everything to lose by not taking care of it.
In the UK the equivalent of four million Christmas dinners are wasted every year.
Post-apocalyptic visions reflect society’s fears – and gamers get to immerse themselves in it.
Here’s a bumper crop of thought-provoking and engaging novels for enquiring minds.
If it hadn’t been for A Christmas Carol, the menu may well have centred on goose (or a boar’s head).
For Victorian shop workers, Christmas could be a miserable time of long hours and low pay.
Our obsession with busyness is about managing relationships – not just time.
Not giving offence is what Christmas is all about.
British is an imperial term, not a national one.
Dystopian fiction is popular, but presenting positive visions of the future in popular culture could help people embrace solutions.
Vegeterian and vegan food is often marketed as close enough to meat that you can hardly tell the difference. This devotion to mimicking meat stifles creative alternatives to Christmas dinner.
Discovering a genetic basis for erectile dysfunction that is linked to Type-2 diabetes will make it easier to identify those at risk – and novel treatments.
The UK government has done little to prove how it will continue to attract highly skilled migrants after Brexit.