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Dash of potassium could help make long-lasting electric car batteries

Potassium may hold the key to making lithium-metal batteries safer, which could pave the way towards longer-lasting batteries for electric vehicles

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The UK's nuclear waste could be buried underground in Cumbria

Environment

The UK's nuclear waste could be buried underground in Cumbria

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Plasma in the original MAST tokamak

Physics

UK's spherical nuclear fusion reactor tests new heat-reducing exhaust

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cooling towers

Environment

China’s 2060 net-zero goal needs large-scale negative emissions tech

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solar farm

Environment

Japan steps up climate ambition with 2050 net zero emissions goal

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Safe, extra long-life nuclear batteries could soon be a reality

Technology

Safe, extra long-life nuclear batteries could soon be a reality

Features

Pinwheels

Technology

Device can harvest wind energy from the breeze made when you walk

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Dark matter in galaxy clusters is behaving oddly and we don't know why

Space

Dark matter in galaxy clusters is behaving oddly and we don't know why

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Windows become transparent solar panels with added nanoparticles

Technology

Windows become transparent solar panels with added nanoparticles

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Tiehm's buckwheat

Life

Rare plant may prevent the first lithium quarry in the US from opening

Tiehm’s buckwheat is an extremely rare plant that thrives in soil containing lithium and boron. Both elements are vital for renewable energy technologies, but mining for them will destroy most of the plant's habitat

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Physics

Blue whirl that consumes all fuel it encounters is three flames in one

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Space

Why dark matter should be called something else

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Physics

Ordinary bricks laced with conductive fibres can store energy

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Technology

Changing how we make solar panels could reduce their carbon emissions

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