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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

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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Eight things we learned in the UK government's pre-Johnson info dump

Environment

Eight things we learned in the UK government's pre-Johnson info dump

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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

Wind turbines in the north sea

Technology

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

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Dark energy

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Dark energy

trinity nuclear test explosion

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The invention of the nuclear bomb

self-unfolding device

Technology

A solar panel that unfolds in sunlight could power spacecraft

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solar panel and wildflowers

Environment

Solar farms could be wildlife havens that tackle biodiversity crisis

UK’s solar farms could provide habitats and food for wildlife, says a new report – but critics worry that planned larger farms will be less wildlife-friendly

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Life

Chernobyl and The Terror docu-dramas expose horror's many faces

Culture

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Cosmic microwave background

Environment

UK could use hydrogen instead of natural gas – if it can make enough

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Godzilla: King of the Monsters reveals our obsession with radiation

Culture