Now in its 46th year, the Edinburgh International Book Festival returns for two weeks this August, bringing together authors and literary fans from across the globe. We spoke to the festival’s CEO ...

These rooftop arrays prove that solar on commercial buildings can be a visual delight – not to mention a source of significant cost savings It was like kitesurfing on a roof,” says engineer Matt ...

Communities in England will be given extra powers to take over pubs and other assets threatened with closure under proposed new legislation. Under the English devolution and community empowerment bill ...

As a child in care, Joe Sabien used to find comfort in the sea. Now, his charity uses sailing as therapy to help people's mental health ...

A new book uncovers a quiet revolution in stone and bronze, the growing number of statues honouring remarkable women across the capital For centuries, London’s cityscape has been shaped by statues of ...

While countries clamour to ban smartphones in schools, fresh research from the Netherlands – one of the first to do so – suggests that its ban has made students more sociable, improved their focus and ...

A new research centre is set to transform our understanding of animal feelings and the impact of human actions on them A cutting-edge research centre that’s designed to transform our understanding of ...

We asked readers: what does abundance mean to you? From human connection to green energy, this is what you said ...

Parisians are swimming in the Seine again following a years-long clean-up – but the French capital isn't the first European city to bring river bathing back ...

The burgeoning medical revolution was a major theme of 2023. “We are seeing a pace of progress that has not been witnessed for 100 years,” Bertalan Meskó, director of the Medical Futurist Institute in ...

A stylist who gives free haircuts to homeless people has sparked a global movement, which connects benevolent professionals to those in need One day in 2015, hairstylist Joshua Coombes took his ...

Classrooms arranged around an indoor rainforest. Porthole windows which look like googly eyes peering out from lumpy, butter-coloured walls. Zigzagging roofs and soaring archways. If this mind-bending ...