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UK’s first deep geothermal project for 36 years opens at Eden Project

A 5-kilometre-deep well is supplying heat to the Eden Project visitor attraction in Cornwall, but despite the UK’s significant resources, it lags behind other European countries in exploiting geothermal energy

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Life

Ancient reptiles’ long necks made them vulnerable to decapitation

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Technology

Solar-powered fuel cell recycles plastic waste and carbon dioxide

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Environment

UK and Ireland suffer one of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth

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Physics

Scandium superconducts at the highest temperature for a pure element

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Cwmystwyth mines and the river Ystwyth in Wales, UK
Environment

Mine waste and rivers: The legacy toxins re-entering our waterways

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Space

A star has been eating an orbiting planet for 85 years

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Scum floating on the River Ribble near Clitheroe in Lancashire, UK

Environment

UK river pollution monitoring is 50 years out of date, say researchers

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Environment

How you can help save Britain’s rivers by becoming a citizen scientist

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Mind

Brain activity ‘barcodes’ may be linked to specific memories in birds

Neural recordings from chickadees have found unique patterns of activity that occur when they hide food and then retrieve it later, and they may represent how memories are indexed in the brain

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Life

Male flies are better at mating after fighting off a robotic rival

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Earth

Humans have pumped so much groundwater, we’ve shifted Earth’s axis

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Environment

Wildfire smoke in North America could be creating clouds over Europe

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Technology

AIs will become useless if they keep learning from other AIs

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