No doubt many of you have spent a happy Christmas tearing away layers of wrapping paper to expose some new gadget. But did you stop to spare a thought for the “sticky-back plastic” holding your ...

It was a ground-breaking eureka moment of modern-day science which all came about thanks to a sliver of sticky tape and a simple lump of graphite, a naturally occurring form of carbon. On a quiet ...

Origami artists can turn paper into all manner of ingenious objects. It’s unlikely, though, that anyone has tried to make a functioning medical lab that way – until now. With the help of some bits of ...