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Sunflowers in a field

Technology

Tiny artificial sunflowers could be used to harvest solar energy

Solar panels could be made from rows of artificial sunflowers, each less than 1 millimetre wide, which automatically bend towards light

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A wind turbine farm off the coast of Yorkshire, UK

Technology

Renewables overtook fossil fuels in UK electricity mix for first time

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solar site

Technology

Outshining fossil fuel: Your guide to the revolution in solar energy

Features

Coal fired power station silhouette at sunset, Pocerady, Czech republic

Environment

Coal power in Europe has had its biggest ever decline

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Solar panels on a roof

Environment

The UK is now using AI to predict solar power and lower energy bills

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solar panels in China

Environment

Cleaning up China's dirty air would give solar energy a huge boost

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trinity nuclear test explosion

Definition

The invention of the nuclear bomb

Car being fuelled from a pump

Environment

Hydrogen has a dirty secret – let's not think it's always a green fuel

Leader

Lise Meitner

People in Science

Lise Meitner

A sponge

Physics

Artificial sponges could pull uranium from seawater for nuclear power

Seawater is full of far more uranium than we can mine from the ground, and specialised sponges could let us harvest it to use in nuclear power plants

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Environment

Seven charts that explain what net zero emissions means for the UK

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Environment

Wind and solar will still work in a climate-change ravaged Europe

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Comment

Liberals who want a Green New Deal must include nuclear power

Comment

Technology

Device that works like a lung makes clean fuel from water

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