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Spoon offers flavour for malnourished dementia patients

Researchers in Sheffield are developing an electronic spoon to enhance food flavours for people with dementia – it's all about tackling malnutrition

Scribbling in the margins

Catch my new writings on Tome of an Obscure Scribbler

Mosaic pays a tribute to a city as river

A colourful mosaic by artist and designer Adam Nathaniel Furman celebrating the ebb and flow of vibrant city life has been unveiled at London Bridge Station

City centre vandalism finds itself out of the picture

An Edinburgh housing association teamed up with local photographers to make an exhibition out of city centre's vandalism hotspots

Our earliest ancestor had to put up with viruses too

The original organism that sourced all life today is older than scientists first suspected, say scientists; it offers fresh insights into the ways life shaped the early Earth

Art in Soho is coming home

A London housing association has ventured into the art world, opening its own gallery to raise funds in support of its affordable housing

Prototype screen display promises to get ‘touchy feely’ with users

Scientists are working on a flexible and elastic kind of display screen that enables users to 'feel' items on their phone; even 'touch' a loved one during video-link conversations

A tale of two membranes

Microbes are everywhere and make up the vast majority of life on Earth, but much about their early evolution remains a mystery that scientists are hoping to resolve

Ground gives up its Dark Age secrets

Archaeologists have published a book exploring their findings of an early Anglo-Saxon settlement in Leicestershire, revealing the long lost details of every day life in the period

Leicester grows its presence in space

The UK Space Agency has selected Space Park Leicester as one of three regional bases to support the nation's emerging space industry