News & Features

There's nothing soft about Northern literary power

Ilkley Literature Festival explores 'soft power' and the North's poetic spirit

Oct 3 •

Machines made flesh

Robots may one day move with muscular grace, thanks to lab-grown tissue, but will these 'bio-bots' be plagued by cramps?

Sep 20 •

We've all got a cross to bear

But sometimes it's a treasure, like the 8th Century Saxon pendant unearthed in a Leeds field

Sep 13 •

Vampires can't partake without an invitation

Whitby hosts its very first literary festival later this year

Sep 6 •

A visit to the dentist just got even hairer...

Dental scientists have proposed repairing teeth with human hair

Aug 23 •

Play the game to save the planet

A new computer game aims to tackle plastic pollution

Aug 16 •

Birmingham is running with the bulls

The art installation featuring 40 colourful sculptures aims to raise money for a local hospice charity

Aug 8 •

Electronics get some skin in the game

New heat sensitive 'skin' could enable lightweight night-vision glasses

Jul 25 •

This book is more than a little cheesy

Tudor re-enactors have translated a 16th Century manuscript extolling the weird and wonderful secrets of Early Modern cheese

Jul 11 •

Printing makes a space engine

Engineers have used 3D printing technology to develop a low-cost thruster able to manoeuvre small satellites in space

Jun 13 •

Chornobyl farm land is good to grow

Scientists claim agricultural land affected by the 1986 nuclear accident is finally safe for farming

Jun 6 •

Sing a song of a textile city

Bradford celebrates its status as UK City of Culture 2025 with art installation evoking its rich industrial heritage

May 30 •

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