Paula Clerkin

Waking up to the familiar sound of dogs barking, doors slamming and traffic on the main road is pretty standard at home in London’s leafy suburb of Shirley, Croydon. Compared to the easily identifiable bird chirps and odd quacks, there is another sound, less familiar to those well rehearsed in...

Developments in 3D printing show us that we have only scratched the surface of its possibilities. Here are 5 recent, groundbreaking developments made with 3D printing which prove how soon, we will be unable to live without it.  1. NASA emailed a spanner to the International Space Station Previously, if...

Yesterday it was announced that Orange Wednesdays will be no more. For the past 10 years, Orange Wednesdays has been a firm favourite in everyone’s diaries. At its peak, Orange Wednesdays “was a massive success and an iconic promotion” – the company said in a statement. Created in 2003...

We think we use the Internet a lot, visiting Facebook, watching videos on YouTube, streaming Netflix and reading articles online. We may spend a lot of time on the web but we’re not actually accessing very much of it. In August 2014, some sites including eBay went offline. Wider...

Etching your hair strands with nano-patterns probably isn’t the first alternative to come to mind. New research is suggesting that the future of hair colouring could be in the form of a flatiron that presses a pattern into the strands of your hair, changing its colour permanently. Scientists from...