A Northumberland MP has warned the region must grasp opportunities presented by artificial technology or risk being “smashed” by the speed of change. Blyth and Ashington MP Ian Lavery admitted he was ...

The UK Government has chosen Lanarkshire as the site of the new specialist zone, which aims to boost the development of data ...

Looking ahead to the arrival of spring in the coming weeks, The Independent has named five of the UK’s most beautiful walks ...

The 'Victorian disease' refers to tuberculosis (TB), which affects the lungs and spreads through droplets in the air when a person with active TB coughs, sneezes or talks. During the 18th and 19th ...

With the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late 18th century, came the first wave of technology to transform the economic system. In the centuries that followed were further ...

Economics Professor Siobhan O’Keefe says that technology has been upending the workforce—more or less constantly—since the dawn of the industrial era. We talked to O’Keefe for some additional context ...

Join us on an extraordinary journey through the Birmingham Canal Navigation, a network boasting over 160 kilometres of waterways. With its impressive expanse surpassing even that of Venice, this ...

The Industrial Revolution refers to a time of transition in Britain and the United States, when manufacturing became the main form of production. Lasting from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th ...

Humans have already caused approximately 1.5°C of warming since the start of the industrial revolution, according to new estimates based on temperature data gleaned from bubbles of air trapped in ice.

Phil Tomlinson receives funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for Made Smarter Innovation: Centre for People-Led Digitalisation. David Bailey receives funding ...

HISTORY. HE LOOKED DOWN ON THREE, ONE, TWO, THREE, LOOKING DOWN. PAT MCCAVANA WAS TRYING TO COME UP WITH A NAME FOR HIS NEW YOUTH LACROSSE CLUB, AND HIS FIRST THOUGHTS DRIFTED TO HIS TOWN’S PRETTY ...