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A Swiss firm is on track to solve the conundrum of where to site industrial solar farms, by turning railways into power plants. Switzerland needs to boost solar energy output seven-fold by 2035 to ...

Renewables and EVs are keeping the net zero dream alive, said experts Reaching net zero emissions by 2050 just might be within grasp in the UK, ‘provided the government stays the course’, Climate ...

Speaking of cancer treatment … Exercise can cut the risk of colon cancer patients dying from the disease by a third, according to a world-first trial that could transform cancer treatment globally.

England and Wales to decriminalise rough sleeping A 200-year-old law that criminalises rough sleeping in England and Wales is to be scrapped, a move campaigners described as “a landmark moment that ...

A thought-provoking collaboration melding music and nature has shone a light on the nocturnal world of a much-maligned member of the insect family: the moth. Violinist Ellie Wilson used moth flight ...

No toilets, expensive food of dubious quality, crowded housing. This was the reality for many in 1840s Britain. And it was set to get worse: cholera had already claimed the lives of 50,000 people in ...

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Death is life’s only certainty, the great leveller – so why do we find it so hard to talk about it? That’s the question raised by a recent poll that marked Celebration Day, a British spin on Mexico’s ...

Millennial fathers spend, on average, triple the amount of time with their children compared to dads in the 1960s. It’s no straightforward golden age – parenting today is for many a complex juggle – ...

Drug trial a ‘milestone’ in leukaemia treatment A new drug pathway is “transforming” the lives of people with leukaemia and could revolutionise how the disease is treated, scientists said this week.

There are no lenses through which the situation in Gaza looks anything but desperate. But for young Palestinian refugees who fled to Egypt, a photography project has offered an outlet to express their ...