For a club rooted in non-league football, Macclesfield’s recent FA Cup didn't just connect those on the pitch, but a whole ...

Innovators have taken a cue from nature to help solve one of washday’s dirty little secrets: microplastics leaching into ...

Rare species spotting – of dung beetles, skylarks, adders and others – has become something of a local passion in a village ...

What if ADHD isn’t a deficit of attention, but an intensified curiosity? A new study explores how reframing the disorder could transform education Impulsivity and racing thoughts are often associated ...

Swimmers, councils, brands and campaigners are beginning to align around a shared goal – cutting single-use plastic at source ...

From ferry companies to shopping centres, communities are buying up local assets to run for themselves as big retailers and the state retreat. Could new funding supercharge the movement? A child waves ...

A giant study of cancer cases spanning millions of diagnoses across 185 countries suggests that more than a third are preventable. Researchers found that 7.1m cases were down to “modifiable risk ...

Despite the ‘broken Britain’ headlines, violent crime is falling – including knife crime. We meet the people helping make the streets safer ...

Telecom infrastructure at the ocean floor is being harnessed as a powerful conservation tool for vulnerable marine mammals ...

Friendship, travel, health… The best time you can have is free time, when there’s no clock or boundary stopping you from living in the moment and being with the ones you love. At the start of my ...

From lending libraries to children’s charities and repair cafés, grassroots groups are stepping up to keep Christmas creative, sustainable and supportive for those struggling this winter in the UK ...

United by unimaginable loss, Palestinians and Israelis are turning pain into purpose. Their grassroots movement of bereaved families is working to build peace where politics has failed There are two ...