Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

The International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC) is a three-week long summer research … Joris Witte needs your support for Help the IAYC to buy new equipment

How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

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Ipsos, the British Science Association, and UK Research and Innovation have published the results of the 2025 Public Attitudes to Science Survey - the first since the Covid-19 pandemic, and the first ...

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The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Preamble In the early 1800s a frenzy of street lighting completely rearranged England’s cities and our night. Overcome with the spectacle of engineering, street lighting was rolled out at a pace. An appropriate arrival point and symbol for the age of enlightenment. It also marks the strengthening of a nyctophobia that has persisted ever since. […]

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Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'

Replacing a top researcher with a private sector manager would send entirely the wrong signal