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Electric car charging point

Environment

UK 10-point climate plan bans new petrol and diesel car sales by 2030

The UK will ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030, ten years earlier than planned, under prime minister Boris Johnson’s ten-point plan for more ambitious action on climate change

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Flash Shapes

Technology

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

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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

Windows can be converted into solar panels by sandwiching nanoparticles between panes of glass – which could make them useful in cities where space for solar panels may be limited

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Life

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

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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

Comment

Physics

Ordinary bricks laced with conductive fibres can store energy

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