Tech

Medical experts from a Scottish university are set to teach surgical skills to GPs in the most remote part of the country for the first time.

Nucleus Financial Group has unveiled a jump in assets under administration (AUA) as positive market movements in the first quarter helped to drive up asset value.

Glasgow University’s plans for a high-tech campus at Govan could be as important as shipbuilding in the 19th and 20th centuries, according to Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli.

Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) is aiming to boost annual investment in Scotland’s infrastructure by up to £1.5 billion as part of a move towards a low-carbon economy.

Savvy children will still find ways to watch harmful content as new threat to online privacy is unleashed, says Euan McColm

How much do you think about your genes, your genetic make-up? Of course we talk about them all the time, noticing family resemblances and personality, ability and other traits (positive and negative!) through the generations. We feel pleased when a child is complimented on a feature we see in ourselves, a bonus in life they have inherited from us, writes Scotland’s chief medical officer Catherine Calderwood.

Notre Dame Cathedral would have burned to the ground in a “chain-reaction collapse” had firefighters not moved as rapidly as they did, according to an official.

The company behind the Assassin’s Creed video games has pledged €500,000 (£434,000) to help restore Notre Dame Cathedral.

Britain’s smallest cathedral has seen a boom in visitor numbers in the wake of the Notre Dame fire – as the catastrophe ‘brings home how fragile’ things are.

A bizarre Frankenstein-style experiment has breathed life into the brains of pigs four hours after death.

The team behind the restoration of legendary hydroplane Bluebird plan to return the vessel to a Scottish loch for a second time – despite the threat of legal action.

It is not easy to talk about, but help is at hand for you to express clearly what you want to happen to your estate once you have left the game, writes Fiona Russell

Resource Efficient Scotland can advise SMEs on how they can boost their bottom lines by making energy and refuse reduction a top priority, writes Rosemary Gallagher

Scotland’s national economic development agency is geared up to help accelerate the delivery of growth for ambitious firms, finds Sarah Devine

Smartphones have become part of modern-day life, but being constantly in touch with the rest of the world via social media seems to be stressing us out, writes Hayley Matthews.

Scotland’s life sciences industry has its sights set on reaching a turnover target of £8 billion by 2025.

Scientists have discovered 365 tiny pieces of plastic per square metre in the Pyrenees mountains and proved “unequivocally” that it was blown there by the wind.

More people must be trained in cyber resilience skills as hacking becomes an increasing danger, writes Dr Stephen Breslin