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Solar flare

Earth

A tech-destroying solar flare could hit Earth within 100 years

If the sun spews “superflares” as often as other stars, one could take down power systems, damage the ozone layer and destroy satellites in the next century

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Why Puerto Rico still has no electrical power and how to fix it

Earth

Why Puerto Rico still has no electrical power and how to fix it

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Technology

How crooks stalled the rise of electric cars for 100 years

Features

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Earth

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Comment

A fully charged mobile phone in a person's hand

Technology

Wireless charger uses quantum trick to power gadgets on the move

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A flatworm with a head at each end of its body

Life

Bioelectric tweak makes flatworms grow a head instead of a tail

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Sprite lightning

Earth

Lightning round-up: The world’s weirdest electricity

Features

Titan's dunes seem to face the wrong way

Space

Electrified sand could explain Titan’s odd backward-facing dunes

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Life

Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape

Features

The world in 2076: Goodbye electricity, hello superconductivity

Physics

The world in 2076: Goodbye electricity, hello superconductivity

The long-awaited discovery of room-temperature superconductors will mean batteries that stay charged forever and a dramatically more efficient world

Features

Technology

Beyond batteries: This technology could revolutionise energy

Features

Technology

Bacteria made to turn sewage into clean water – and electricity

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Physics

Shocking beauty: The unexpected charms of the high-voltage lab

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Life

Electric eels seen leaping out of water to attack land predators

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