The UK’s biggest rooftop solar plant – the size of two-and-a-half football pitches – has been unveiled. Costing £4million, the…
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Fourth moon discovered around Pluto
The cosmos loves irony. Five years after Pluto was stripped of its planet status, astronomers have discovered yet another moon…
One cheap pill protects healthy people from HIV
A daily pill that costs just 25¢ can prevent both men and women from catching HIV from partners carrying the…
Scientists use inkjet printing to produce solar cells
Solar energy may soon become easier to capture, say researchers who have developed a novel method to produce solar cells…
14-Year Old Drives Car 1,980 Miles On One Gallon of Gas
I don’t know what you considered a ‘monumental feat’ when you were 14 years old, but for me, a 10-mile,…
Bird fossils reveal life’s colourful chemistry
The pigments preserved in fossils, including a 120 million-year-old bird, have been revealed using X-rays. A team, led by scientists…
A ‘wonder drug’ that could kill ALL types of cancer
A breast cancer ‘wonder drug’ could be turned into a universal weapon against tumours, British scientists said last night. They…
Living the (Green) Electric Scooter Dream
Ever since my father bought our family a grass-green Puch moped when I was 16, and it was stolen on…
Monkeys get glow-in-the-dark eyes
A gene therapy treatment in monkeys may pave the way to curing the blind. Treating blindness has always been an…
Type 2 diabetes in newly diagnosed ‘can be reversed’
An extreme eight-week diet of 600 calories a day can reverse Type 2 diabetes in people newly diagnosed with the…