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Environment

Solar boom has replaced farmland that could feed millions of people

More than 1300 square kilometres of cropland worldwide was covered by solar panels in 2018, an area that could be producing 4 quadrillion calories per year

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Environment

Solar-powered floating islands could help to regrow coral reefs

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Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station

Environment

Tech firms claim nuclear will solve AI's power needs – they're wrong

Analysis

Thermal-trapping device reaching 1050 degrees Celsius CREDIT Device/Casati et al. USAGE RESTRICTIONS Credit must be given to the creator. Adaptations must be shared under the same terms.

Physics

Sunlight-trapping device can generate temperatures over 1000°C

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Mathematics

500-year-old maths problem turns out to apply to coffee and clocks

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Physics

Fusion reactors could create ingredients for a nuclear weapon in weeks

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Wireless power from space

Environment

Five climate megaprojects that might just save the world

Features

Inside the UKs the Joint European Torus

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Future of fusion: How the UK's JET reactor paved the way for ITER

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Space

Russia’s space weapon: Is it nuclear and does it pose a threat?

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Space

Satellite beamed power from space to Earth for the first time ever

If we are ever going to have a solar power station in space, we will need to be able to transmit power from orbit - a feat that has now been achieved

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Earth

Huge deposit of natural hydrogen gas detected deep in Albanian mine

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Technology

World's biggest onshore wind turbine blades unveiled in China

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Physics

Nuclear fusion reaction releases almost twice the energy put in

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Environment

Floating solar power booms in South-East Asia as land becomes scarce

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