Science

A scheme in London is delivering clean, affordable energy directly to residents in social housing via newly regulated solar microgrids. Rooftop panels have existed on housing estates such as Frampton...

THE Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (RBGE) has digitised and published online, free of charge, its entire back catalogue and archive, following a five-year project.  The Botanics said that the...

A US company backed by the Gates Foundation is using virtual reality to show how vaccines save lives – from the Congo to classrooms across America. On World Polio Day,...

A SCOTTISH company has been awarded funding to develop a tool for earlier diagnosis of canine osteoarthritis (OA) – a disease which affects up to 20% of dogs worldwide. Veterinary...

Ever wondered what a tree might say if it could talk? A creative AI project lets passersby find out in real-time conversations Trees that talk back might sound like something...

THE answer to how farmers in Africa and Asia could one day grow crops that are both resistant to climate change as well as being able to reduce methane emissions...

If you had a bag of £1 million in cash, would you leave it on the pavement with the zip open? Of course not – you’d lock it away, protected...

Arbikie Distillery is one of the three collaborators behind the MycoPack project. A NEWLY funded collaboration could see university researchers turn whisky production leftovers into compostable packaging. MycoPack is a...

THE James Hutton Institute has announced its participation in a £4.25m project to develop a sustainable alternative to harmful pesticides. Crop Protection Strategies for the Transition to Environmentally-Friendly Agriculture (CROPSAFE)...

A NEW study claims that GLP1 agonist drugs, commonly referred to as weight loss injections, may reduce asthma symptoms in obese people. The study comes from the University of Aberdeen...