science

Most diabetics need a finger prick test several times a day to determine whether their blood sugar level is under control. But the developers of this

It’s time for celebration after a three-month break for maintenance. The largest particle accelerator in the world is back in business. This time

Research shows evidence that electrical brain stimulation improves the recovery of stroke patients.

It has taken 30 years of loving restoration to save the early Christian art of the 6th century Basilica di Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome. Nestling at

Europe’s largest floating solar farm is ready to switch on. Built on a reservoir, (the Queen Elizabeth II), near Heathrow airport in Britain, the

Last month was the hottest February ever recorded. Attributed to human-caused global warming, this is a constant trend and consequences can be seen

What would we do for food in the event of a global disaster, such as climate change or nuclear war? Well that’s where the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Was there ever life on the red planet? That is one of the major scientific questions of our time, and the European Space Agency is searching for an

Elephants enjoy a good marula fruit as much as anyone. But at the Kruger National Park in South Africa their love of marula is becoming something of

Conservationists in Scotland are watching the march of the grey squirrel northward with considerable alarm. They believe the red squirrel, indigenous

The European Space Agency-developed satellite Sentinel-3A, recently launched from Plesetsk in Russia, has started its in-orbit Earth observation in

The detection of gravitational waves by LIGO observatory in the US opens up a new chapter in astronomy.

How do you tell one zebra from another? By looking at their stripes, of course – with a special software that can identify their natural “barcode”