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A serviceman with a Russian flag on his uniform stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko - RC2LPV9MUYER

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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant 'not designed to withstand fighting'

A scientist in Ukraine warns that the reactor at Europe’s largest nuclear power station is designed to protect against some threats, but not shelling

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T806G0 LLNL, National Ignition Facility Preamplifiers, 2012

Physics

Ignition confirmed in a nuclear fusion experiment for the first time

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Millimetre-wave beams could give us access to deep geothermal energy

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Millimetre-wave beams could give us access to deep geothermal energy

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W0MN5G This undated NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies. IC 335 is part of a galaxy group containing three other galaxies, and located in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster 60 million light-years away, December 30, 2014. As seen in this image, the disc of IC 335 appears edge-on from the vantage point of Earth. UPI/NASA

Space

Shredded dwarf galaxies may lack dark matter to hold them together

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Climate Activists Protest Congressional Baseball Game, Washington, d.c., United States - 28 Jul 2022

Environment

What does the Inflation Reduction Act mean for US carbon emissions?

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Photograph of a stencil-printed two-cell paper battery with a design that spells the name of the authors' research institution (Empa). The battery is running a liquid crystal display alarm clock. Credit: Alexandre Poulin.

Technology

Disposable paper battery is activated by a drop of tap water

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula.

Space

Two smart books probe multiverses, dark matter – and sexual politics

Culture

Air source heat pump installers

Environment

UK's slow heat pump efforts will take 600 years to meet 2050 target

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An image of the top PMT array, part of the Lux-Zeplin Lab in the Sanford Underground Research Facility.

Physics

World's most sensitive dark matter detector tested for the first time

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R1GHPD Nuclear power station cooling tower low poly. 3d render ecology pollution save planet environment concept triangle polygonal. Radioactive nuclear reactor electricity vector illustration

Environment

Nuclear power can help us reach net zero, but what is its true cost?

Society must balance the pros and cons of nuclear energy and work out the massive issue of who foots the bills when power stations go over budget

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Environment

Do we need nuclear power in the energy mix to stop climate change?

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Environment

UK expects to produce more electricity than it needs by 2030

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Technology

Device that stores liquid sunshine could one day power your phone

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Space

Why I'm choosing dark matter over dark energy - for now at least

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