The two great technology revolutions of the modern era — artificial intelligence and renewable energy — are colliding.

Everyone agrees that we need more homes, and fast — and that we want them to look good. But who should be the judge: architects, governments or the general public?

Bill Clinton emerges as something of a prophet in a book about a gamble on free trade, while Giuliano da Empoli offers a stark warning on the coming world order

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Saint-Gobain’s aim is to be the reference for sustainable habitat, providing a range of innovative and high-performance product solutions for all areas of the built environment. Stuart McKill, sustain...

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do Microplastics have been found almost everywhere: in blood, placentas, lungs – even the human brain. One study estimated our cerebral organs alone may contain 5g of the stuff, or roughly a teaspoon. If true, plastic isn’t just wrapped around our food or woven into our clothes: it is lodged deep inside us. Now, researchers suspect these particles may also be meddling with our gut microbes. When Dr Christian Pacher-Deutsch at the University of Graz in Austria exposed gut bacteria from five healthy volunteers to five common microplastics, the bacterial populations shifted – along with the chemicals they produced. Some of these changes mirrored patterns linked to depression and colorectal cancer. Continue reading...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills to shore up the finances and beef up oversight of California's FAIR Plan, which offers insurance of last resort to homeowners.

Australia's largest shire says it needs state and federal support to repair roads damaged during a cyclone, which provide a "lifeline" to remote communities.

Archaeologist Kristina Douglass and Ángel Adames-Corraliza, an atmospheric scientist, are among this year’s winners of the $800,00 MacArthur Fellowship.

Three years after real estate’s last bull run ground to a halt, the global property market is showing tentative signs of a recovery as easing interest rates bring some of the conditions that powered t...

This car park has been future-proofed for the days when public transport is improved, and the multi-storey deck can be adapted for other uses.

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Prince of Wales’s decision welcomed as a means of drawing attention to the event and galvanising talks

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.