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Technology

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

Solar power is getting so cheap it is overtaking fossil fuels – and that’s without next-generation photovoltaic technology and artificial photosynthesis

Features

folic acid supplements

Health

Folic acid seems to be essential for fathers-to-be as well as mothers

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Macaques eating rice

Life

Macaques really can use logical reasoning to solve puzzles

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Life

New monkey species found in Amazon area threatened by deforestation

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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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Environment

The UK is spending billions on overseas fossil fuel projects

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Technology

AI passes theory of mind test by imagining itself in another's shoes

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Adding more bioethanol to petrol is no way to go green

Comment

Adding more bioethanol to petrol is no way to go green

Comment

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Summer of science: 10 great books and podcasts for the holidays

Why are squid eyes so big? What is Caesar's novel? Can Alexander von Humboldt go graphic? How do you talk to alien plants? Recharge with 51¶¯Âþ’s picks

Culture

Life

Orangutan mothers tell infants where to go by scratching themselves

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Technology

The plan to build mega wind farms and artificial islands in North Sea

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Environment

Trees demand equal status in a new Paris gallery show

Culture

Health

From the archives: Kuru, the disease that foreshadowed BSE

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