The RHS Chelsea Plant of the Year 2025 has been announced after the famous flower show took place. As the world’s first pink Philadelphus, it is a big accomplishment by a recently retired propagator with six decades of experience.
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Analysis finds out whether AI can predict ‘grey swan’ weather events that are rare and unprecedented. The answer is unexpected.
Just as many women vary in their preferences of footwear, Barbies are not so different, it turns out. Have barbies changed their tune about wearing heels over the years? 'Barbie research' has some answers.
Researchers in UK-US collaboration create ‘recipe roadmap’ for finding a ‘complete hydrogen system’ naturally underground - potentially providing the clean fuel of the future. The clues could be an essential roadmap towards making commercial discoveries.
Robot WildFusion does not only have vision like most robots, it can sense vibration, touch and ‘bodily states’ to explore through forest, much like an animal.
New Tolkien statues will be unveiled in East Yorkshire by June, depicting a special memory he had in a nearby wood.
Copper supplies are becoming increasingly uncertain. As extraction companies use destructive methods to uncover it, could recycling avoid the worst to come and guarantee future supply for the green transition?
Stellar collapse could be the secret to where many samples of gold, silver and heavy elements in the galaxy come from.
Fungal superbugs are not just something of science fiction like in The Last of Us. Some critical species are on the rise and present particular problems in the UK due to ‘fungal asthma’.
Hidden at the back of a museum in London is the oldest museum cafe in the world. You can still visit today.
Discover how Jane Austen was influenced by Derbyshire and how you can step into her world of Pride and Prejudice there.
Why does Rolls-Royce want to send a nuclear reactor to the Moon? They are not the only ones. Bangor and Oxford experts are helping Rolls-Royce in this dream.
How you design your bedroom can influence how awake you feel in the morning. So should you opt for artificial or natural light?
The University of Portsmouth in England partnered with tech company TG0 to make smart insoles that can measure how the body interacts with the ground, potentially reducing the risk of sports injury.
From Game of Thrones to Disney, would our heroes of film and television vote the same way we do? Political scientists suggest the answer might be yes. Here is why.
This St Patrick’s Day we look at a mythical Irish land that inspired a gene that could repair muscle function in patients that have traumatic accidents.
The world's oldest impact crater found in Australia has surprised geologists in what secrets it holds about Earth's earlier history.
A rare tropical cyclone has been downgraded but it is still making impact in Australia, where residents in parts of Queensland and New South Wales are warned to stay indoors. Find out what has happened so far.
It may seem a sparse land, but it is not, with rich minerals and a useful geographic position, so Trump has shown interest in acquiring Greenland. As things are, why should those of Greenland consider another future?
It was previously thought that lands took a very long time to recover from mass extinctions. Some land based ecosystems actually recovered quite fast after the species extinction that took place at the end of the Permian. Why and what makes these settings unique?