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A woman fitted with a chip in her brain has been able to write her name for the first time in 20 years using only her thoughts.
Great British Railways is a “solution looking for a problem” and could see the UK repeating mistakes made under British Rail.
Former President Joe Biden’s CHIPS and Science Act already had flaws, but now his successor’s administration’s approach is complicating matters further.
Since 2002, all of Earth’s continents have experienced “unprecedented freshwater loss” driven by climate change, unsustainable groundwater use and extreme droughts, new satellite observations have ...
Online shopping has changed the way consumers consume. While some mourn the decline of the high streets, most embrace the convenience of online shopping. And it all started with eBay, which has its 30 ...
Successive governments have failed to tackle the dangerous health, environmental and economic impacts of nitrogen pollution in England, a House of Lords report has warned.
When two Californian professors thought up the CubeSat at the turn of the third millennium, they had no idea they would set off a revolution in how things are done in space. And all they wanted was to ...
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Governments around the world are attempting to make the internet safer through legislation. But can this really work?
The UK government’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has rejected the £24bn power project to bring solar and wind power from the Moroccan desert to the UK via 3,800km-long ...
A trial of a hybrid vertical growing system in Dyson Farming’s 26-acre strawberry glasshouse on its Lincolnshire farm has massively boosted yields.
Robots will be used to remotely and autonomously sort and segregate radioactive waste at the defunct nuclear sites.