University of Dundee

Luxury treehouses are a good way to feel like you’re getting back to nature without compromising creature comforts. A new concept is intended to make living among the trees a little greener, taking advantage of their natural cooling mechanisms to keep the house at a comfortable temperature.

Sticky hands resulting from melted ice cream could become a thing of the past thanks to scientists in Scotland who have discovered a naturally-occurring protein that can be added to ice cream to make it melt more slowly.