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Exclusive: Experts say women and girls routinely overlooked by health professionals as autism wrongly thought of as male disorder

Majority of cats show 'secure attachment' to their humans

A 19-year-old defeated Magnus Carlsen, often described as the best chess player who ever lived. Chaos followed, reports Richard Hall

Burning hydrogen produces only heat and water, and is attracting billions of dollars in investment

What began as a dozen companies in 2012 has now grown to more than 70 members and associates connected to the Iceland Ocean Cluster, writes Hannah Hall

As the Doomsday Clock ticks even closer to midnight, Will Pritchard speaks to the people hoping to preserve centuries worth of music in a vault beneath the permafrost of Svalbard

Too many people associate the guitar with white indie rockers then blame the ‘death of rock’ for the instrument’s demise. But the six-string is being used best elsewhere, says Roisin O’Connor, and the…

People in northern India are posting pictures of the mountain range after the peaks came back into view

German power producers are poised to pay customers to use electricity this weekend.  Wind generation is forecast to climb to a record on Sunday, creating more output than needed and driving electricity prices below zero, broker data compiled by Bloomberg show. It would be the first time this year that the average price for a whole day is negative, not just for specific hours.

‘The recent progress of renewables means that fossil fuel-dominated projections are no longer realistic,’ says researcher

Solar energy costs have fallen 90 per cent over the last decade, while new discoveries have seen efficiency rates rise

‘Wood’s ability to withstand simulated low earth orbit conditions astounded us’

We could shoot lasers at the lunar soil to help us live on the Moon, scientists have proposed.

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Sweden is so good at recycling that, for several years, it has imported rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. Less than 1 per cent of Swedish household waste was sent to landfill last year or any year since 2011. We can only dream of such an effective system in the UK, which is why we end up paying expensive transport costs to send rubbish to be recycled overseas rather than paying fines to send it to landfill under The Landfill Tax of 1996. 

Puritans, Goths, avant-garde artists, hell-raising poets and fashion icon Coco Chanel all saw something special in it. Now black, that most enigmatic of colours, has become even darker and more mysterious.

Getting rest days in between workouts is important for recovery

Getting rest days in between workouts is important for recovery