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England’s out of the World Cup, but the UK can at least enjoy the weather… can’t it?
Blockchains and AI could play a key role in the decentralised energy systems of the future.
In the hunt for the next Messi, conventional wisdom favours football players with lots of experience at an early age. Research and England’s example may advocate a different approach.
If you’re worried about food poisoning at your next barbecue, wait until you see what’s for pudding.
America’s early dogs are all gone – save for their rather nasty cancer.
Research is increasingly proving fingerprints can be used for much more than identifying people.
What do we really know about the link between a species’ sex life and how it evolves?
Science festivals are booming and with their mixture of music and art they are opening the field to a whole new audience who are keen to be amazed.
It’s a British icon that is loved by many but used by very, very few – it’s time for an upgrade.
Most of us keep tabs on other people’s wrongdoings but suffer from ‘ethical amnesia’ when it comes to our own missteps.
The ‘right to be forgotten’ won’t always help when someone posts something harmful about you – but there are other options.
Most scientists have found a way to make religion and evolution compatible, but not in the way you might think.
Internet connections could one day come from solar-powered planes that fly for months or even longer at a time.
Scientists have found a way to narrow down the best signs that a specific volcano is about to blow.
Poo-analysis tests conducted by the Soviet leader may not have been as crazy as they sound.
More and more of us are computing on The Cloud. Do we know what we’re doing?
British weather let you down? Watch a livestream of the solar eclipse from the University of Nottingham.
The internet and social media has turned a private death into a very public one.
Can the serious atmosphere of court, standing in the dock facing a be-wigged judge and barristers, be carried over into the world of video-conferencing? Skype of the Bailey, if you will. This is what the…
They may be the arbiters of the world’s most gentlemanly sport, but cricket umpires provided by the home team are still more likely to be biased than neutral umpires, according to a new study that analysed…
The Philae lander is due to break away from the Rosetta spacecraft, which is currently in orbit around a comet 30 light minutes (600 million km) from Earth. It is planned that Philae will touch down on…
Efforts to explain Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general have generally focused on how they are both a new form of money as well as a challenge to existing forms of money. Cryptocurrencies are novel…
The 24th Ig Nobel prizes were announced on September 18. The prizes annually award scientific research that “first makes people laugh and then makes them think.” The ceremony was food-themed including…