Chewing gum is a blight on city streets and takes a heavy toll on the environment, say its critics. But one woman in Britain is performing modern-day alchemy on it - Gumdrop founder Anna Bullus - as A ...

Concern about Facebook's respect for data privacy is widening to include the information that it collects about non-users, after Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the social network tracks people w ...

The EU is drawing up a code of conduct for tech companies to tackle fake news. It wants to see more vetting of advertising, fighting disinformation and preventing unauthorized use of people's data.

Residents at a care home in the south of England have an unusual new best friend to bond with - a robotic therapy dog. Matthew Stock reports.

As China's aggressive hunt for overseas cobalt and lithium for electric vehicles pushes up prices and causes a global shortage of the key metals, South Korea is increasingly turning to such "urban min ...

New York student Benjy Firester wins 1st place for his model on the spread of late blight - the plant pathogen that sparked the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and 1850s. His model could be used to p ...