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energy and fuels

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Environment

We should pursue speculative climate solutions like quantum batteries

A new kind of battery rooted in quantum effects is showing promise. No one knows if they will ever become a practical option for electric vehicles or solar-power storage. But as the world burns, potentially transformative ideas must be explored

Leader

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Environment

Jacob Rees-Mogg: Climate change concern over new energy policy chief

Analysis

Wood burning in a wood-burning stove

Environment

UK energy crisis sparks rush for firewood despite air pollution fears

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Water flowing from a tap

Environment

UK toilets and showers will need water efficiency labels by 2025

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A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the Pacific Ocean off the island Rurutu in French Polynesia

Life

Whale songs can spread between groups nearly 8000 kilometres apart

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Life

Deepwater Horizon oil spill linked to changes in dolphin gene activity

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R1XNWN Rooftop gardens on modern office buildings in downtown Vancouver, BC, Canada

Humans

Why I love the proliferation of green roofs and living walls

Comment

Magic Mushroom Spores

Health

Psilocybin therapy seems to help some people give up drinking alcohol

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Outdoor test on the River Cam (UK), in front of the Bridge of Sighs, St John?s College, during a cloudy day

Technology

Floating artificial leaf converts energy from sunlight into fuel

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A serviceman with a Russian flag on his uniform stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko - RC2LPV9MUYER

Society

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant 'not designed to withstand fighting'

A scientist in Ukraine warns that the reactor at Europe’s largest nuclear power station is designed to protect against some threats, but not shelling

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Health

Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy not linked to miscarriage or stillbirth

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Physics

Ignition confirmed in a nuclear fusion experiment for the first time

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Humans

Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

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Environment

Millimetre-wave beams could give us access to deep geothermal energy

Comment

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