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For many islanders, delays to the postal service are an inescapable part of life. But that should no longer be the case for those living in Orkney, after it became the first place in Britain to have mail delivered by a drone.  The new Royal Mail service will see post …

Two scientists believe they have found a historic Royal Navy submarine buried under a park – confirming an urban legend which has been around for nearly a century. Since the 1930s, residents of Dartmouth – home to naval officer training for more than 150 years – have been convinced the wreck …

A prolific ransomware gang claims to have stolen 3,000 designs from Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket team and is threatening to sell them to rivals.  The infamous LockBit group called out billionaire Musk earlier this week as it warned of auctioning off the ‘certified’ drawings in a significant data leak on …

Royal Mail is building a fleet of 500 drones to carry mail to remote communities all over the UK, including the Isles of Scilly and the Hebrides. The postal service, which has already conducted successful trials over Scotland and Cornwall, will create more than 50 new postal drone routes over …

Incredible digital reconstructions have brought to life the faces of two people buried at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh, thought to be some of the city’s first inhabitants.  People lived in the area for centuries, but the town was only formally founded in the 12th-century, when it became one of …

‘Hidden numbers’ have a profound effect on our lives – from online dating and falling in love to manipulating our decisions through targeted advertising and fake news. In this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, Mathematician and author Hannah Fry will explore how maths, numbers and data patterns can help explain …

Nature chiefs hail tree angel appeal: Leaders of major environmental organisations back campaign to plant thousands of trees across UK Royal Horticultural Society and Woodland Trust both lent support to green drive  Aim is to plant thousands of trees to help make Britain a better, greener country All the main …

The Earth’s magnetic field is in a permanent state of change.  Magnetic north drifts around and every few hundred thousand years the polarity flips so a compass would point south instead of north.  The strength of the magnetic field also constantly changes and currently it is showing signs of significant …

Underwater highways, hoverboard-based sports and holidays in space are some of the upcoming revelations which will be commonplace in 50 years’ time, a new report on the future of technology has predicted. The report also predicts the mass-scale production of 3D-printed organs, implants to monitor our health and self-cleaning homes …

Up to 40 million electronic gadgets are lying discarded in UK homes, a study has found.  Each of the items contains, including old phones, music players and tablets, contain rare Earth metals such as Indium, Yttirium and Europium. Yttrium, for example, is worth £2,397 ($3,400) per pound and is used for camera …