Rima Sabina Aouf

The realities of climate change have driven another big year in material innovation in 2024. Here are 10 of the best solutions that have put a promising spin on cement, plastic, fur, linoleum, or even introduced something new.

A sofa and a coffin are among the items that were displayed in Add Wood, an exhibition exploring the potential of biodegradable 3D-printed timber.

Hormone levels can be easily tested and monitored at home using the Hormometer, a new instant testing kit created by Canadian start-up Eli Health and launched at tech fair CES.

Californian start-up Aptera has debuted what it claims to be the first production-ready solar electric vehicle that doesn't need to be plugged in for day-to-day driving, developed with help from Pininfarina.

From tiny cats that cool down tea to a blinking AI companion intended to integrate with your family, here are seven cute robots that have dominated news feeds since last week's CES – and what they tell us about "cuteness" in design.

Design studio Inxects has developed a wearable that translates environmental stress signals into physical sensations to let users feel humanity's impact on nature.

Data journalist and illustrator Mona Chalabi has worked with architecture studio and research lab Situ to examine the proposed international crime of domicide in Patterns of Life, an installation at the Smithsonian Design Triennial in New York.

Designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello embraced the difficulties of working with copper in Nigeria, where the material is mined but rarely sold, to make his latest metal furniture collection for Los Angeles gallery Marta.

Chinese technology brand Lenovo has revealed a prototype of what it's calling the "world's first ultraslim solar-powered PC", which looks like a regular laptop but runs on energy from the sun.

Charismatic objects that squeak, rumble and clang have been produced by industrial design students at Ohio State University.