A sea turtle has a new home in Scotland after being found injured and entangled in a plastic bag in the Maldives.
02/12/2021
A drug treatment which, the makers say, works against the new Omicron variant of Covid-19, has been approved by UK regulators. Xevudy (sotrovimab), made by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has been found to cut hospital admission and…
Living robots designed by computer and built from stem cells have started to reproduce in a breakthrough which could lead to self-replicating machines, scientists have said.
30/11/2021
A chef has taken Christmas dinner one step further this year, choosing to turn his turkey and trimmings into a pie that weighs a massive 1kg.
29/11/2021
A genetic “Swiss army knife” has been created which could treat incurable hereditary diseases such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anaemia and Parkinson’s. The technology is an improvement on the ground-breaking Crispr gene-editing procedure first…
03/09/2021
A novel material, dubbed 'vegan spider silk', has been created by researchers at the University of Cambridge and may be a long-term replacement for single-use plastic.
10/06/2021
Swallowable cameras the size of capsules will be given to NHS patients in a “sci-fi” bid to check for cancer. Taking more than 57,000 pictures as they work through the digestive system, the disposable devices are intended to replace complicated and…
11/03/2021
The UK's population of cranes has reached its highest level for more than 400 years, conservationists have said.
22/04/2020
Food can be eaten for up to six months after the best-before date and weeks beyond its use-by date, according to consumer watchdogs.
06/04/2020
British medics say they have achieved results “beyond our wildest dreams” in efforts to treat the most serious form of haemophilia.
05/01/2020
Saving the whale is more important than planting trees to combat climate change, scientists have found, as they capture vast amounts of carbon in their bodies before sinking to the bottom of the...
20/11/2019
The zero-waste movement has seen chefs trained into how to turn leftovers into meals as customers become more aware of food waste.
09/11/2019
