Science

Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies

The news when it comes to climate change isn’t exclusively catastrophic. Quick-developing global megatrends suggest the fight is not over yet

Bad news about our planet can paralyse us, says former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres. Instead, it’s time to focus on the opportunities in tackling climate change. She explains why ‘radical [...]

From shootings in the US to humanitarian crises, the first three months of 2018 have seen many challenges. But behind the headlines are inspiring stories of progress. Here are 20 of our favourites

Samuel Bennett, who became an alcoholic in his teens, is developing a phone app that will support other addicts who are in recovery. 'Nobody can do it on their own,' he says

Dr Caroline Ford, co-founder of the Stemminist movement, shares her thoughts on how a supportive and empowering space for women and minorities in Stemm has been found in an unexpected place

The number of cities that get at least 70 per cent of their total electricity supply from renewable energy has more than doubled since 2015

Electric cars are widely seen as a wonderful idea for the future, but too expensive and impractical for now. It’s time to bust some of the myths that are preventing their widespread rollout, [...]

A social enterprise is transforming human waste into a clean, affordable fuel in Kenya. It smells like the future, discovers Oliver Balch

Scientists from the University of Leicester have won a ‘Space Oscar’ for their research into combatting deforestation

Save the people, save the forest. In rural Indonesia, a pioneering clinic is showing how the health of people and forests could and should be intertwined

Majd Mashharawi has invented environmentally friendly, cheap and lightweight blocks that use ash instead of sand. Could ‘Green Cake’ help rebuild the besieged Gaza Strip?

We’re more digitally connected than ever before, and it’s having a chilling impact on our health, wellbeing and relationships. But society is also taking steps to deal with this new and growing [...]

Many of us are glued to our devices around the clock, and it's transforming the way we relate to one another. But there are ways to help maintain a balance, writes Anastasia Dedyukhina

Fereshteh Forough is founder of Code to Inspire, the first all-female coding school in Afghanistan. Ambition has taken her from refugee to CEO

From motion-powered mobile phone chargers to urine-powered electricity; three ways in which human energy is pushing society forward

The designer behind a range of clothes that expand to fit growing babies and toddlers has been awarded the James Dyson award for student innovation

You may not think of the buzz and whine of insects as musical, but the distinctive pitch of mosquito wingbeats could tell us how to fight malaria. Daniel A Gross meets the researchers who are [...]

From the northern lights emerging over a glacier lagoon, to the scars of a heart and lung transplant, a competition to showcase photographs that illustrate inspirational aspects of science has [...]

Solar energy is helping to save lives in Syria by providing a more reliable power supply