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The National Trust for Scotland has launched a campaign to save the birthplace of Bard. The humble cottage in Alloway where Robert Burns was born and where the first Burns Night Supper was held is at risk of being damaged beyond repair, it said.

Rocks in the seabed off the UK coast could provide long-term storage locations for renewable energy production, new research suggests. An advanced technique could be used to trap compressed air in porous rock formations found in the North Sea using electricity from renewable technologies.

Swarms of tiny, pipe-inspecting robots could soon be able to monitor and fix pipes, radically changing the UK's buried infrastructure system which currently costs more than £5 billion per year to maintain. In a world’s first, researchers are testing the viability of miniature robots that

Would the Sydney Opera House be considered as timeless if it was turquoise, or the vast wall of the Hoover Dam as robust in red? Would Rome’s Pantheon still be regarded as resplendent if its iconic dome had been completed in pink? Concrete structures have long been able to astonish, but their

A ‘newly-identified’ stone circle which was thought to be thousands of years old has turned out to be a replica built by a farmer in the 1990s. Archaeologists were initially excited about the addition of another Recumbent Stone Circle to the many already identified in Aberdeenshire.

Scottish glass wool insulation manufacturer Superglass has developed the ultimate tea cosy and pitted it against the traditional woolly cosy in a Facebook Live video. The tea cosy, made of 84% recycled glass wool insulation, kept an identical tea pot hotter over a 90-minute period in an experiment b

A consultation event is planned for what will be the UK's highest zip line and longest alpine coaster on a Midlothian hillside. Midlothian Council is to stage a drop-in event to communicate plans to transform Midlothian Snowsports Centre into a year-round multi-activity leisure destination.

Plans for the creation of a five-star dog hotel outside an Aberdeenshire village have received the green light. The Mormond Dog Hotel and Spa project will be built within the grounds of an existing home near Memsie.

The winning design for a new district of Shenzhen in southeastern China includes plans for one of the world’s tallest buildings. Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) were victorious in a competition for the Shimao Shenzhen Longgang Master Plan and the associated tower,

Construction workers are being urged to ‘spray safe’ this winter following the launch of a revolutionary new reflective spray which will make them more visible in the dark. The Albedo100 spray is highly reflective of lights during darkness and can be sprayed on to almost any surface.

The ultimate tea cosy, made of glass wool insulation, will be put the test against a traditional tea cosy in a Facebook Live video on Thursday 17 January at 10am.

The Falkirk Wheel is set to reveal its engineering secrets, with the first-ever public tour of the iconic structure’s internal workings. Until now, visitors have only been able to imagine the engineering magic hidden behind The Wheel’s curved steel and soaring arches, but canal custodian

A New York-based organisation is developing a walking tour app which reveals details of how Scots were responsible for creating many of the city’s famous structures. The American-Scottish Foundation was invited to join the Landmarks 50 project and develop the fascinating history of ‘The

The Gyle at Edinburgh Park Premier Inn has become the UK’s first battery-powered hotel in a bid to improve energy efficiency, secure power supply and enable energy cost savings on-site. In a UK-first, the Whitbread-owned company is trialling a new 100kW lithium ion battery at the 200-room site

The City of London Corporation has today released updated images of how its City Cluster skyline will look in 2026. Now including the recently approved 100 Leadenhall Street, the images show the area in the eastern corner of the Square Mile which is home to some of London’s most iconic skyscra