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Flying at some 65,000ft, the ultra-lightweight Zephyr S is uniquely capable of providing persistent surveillance or communications over the same area of land or sea for weeks at a time without landing.

Technology

Zephyr solar-powered drone smashes record with 2-month-long flight

The Airbus Zephyr S, a military reconnaissance aircraft, has more than doubled the record it set in 2018 for an uncrewed flight duration

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Roasting green chile on top of Sandia National Laboratories? National Solar Thermal Test Facility. Roasting green chile with concentrated sunlight instead of propane produces flavorful chile and reduces carbon dioxide emissions.

Technology

Roasting green chillies in the sun could pave way for solar cooking

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Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

Technology

Russian shelling at Ukrainian nuclear plant risks 'another Chernobyl'

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Two Astronauts wearing Space Suits Standing on Alien Planet and Looking at Something. Futuristic Space Exploration, Discovery and Colonization.

Humans

The Moonday Letters review: Genre-busting sci-fi extols hope as a duty

Culture

The GE-Alstom Block Island Wind Farm stands in the water off Block Island, Rhode Island, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept, 14, 2016. The installation of five 6-megawatt offshore-wind turbines at the Block Island project gives turbine supplier GE-Alstom first-mover advantage in the U.S. over its rivals Siemens and MHI-Vestas. Photographer: Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Environment

Unexploded munitions found at first large US offshore wind farm sites

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Planet Neptune in the Starry Sky of Solar System in Space with image elements furnished by NASA.

Space

A passing star shifting Neptune’s orbit could wreck the solar system

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2DEWC6E Beijing, China. 2nd Dec, 2020. This image taken from video animation at Beijing Aerospace Control Center (BACC) shows Chang'e-5 spacecraft landing on the moon. China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the near side of the moon late Tuesday and sent back images, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced. Credit: Jin Liwang/Xinhua/Alamy Live News

Space

Moon rocks collected by the Chang’e 5 mission have water in them

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2E2GFFW Travel in Taiwan

Life

Thousands of coral larvae ‘planted’ under offshore wind turbine

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NuScale Power Plant Design

Technology

Mini nuclear power stations may produce more waste than large ones

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Tomato

Chemistry

Adding tomato pigment to solar panels increases their efficiency

Lycopene, which makes fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes red, improves the efficiency of perovskite solar cells

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Space

Why the next big solar storm might hit Earth without warning

Features

Space

Pairs of giant planets may make their star systems ultra-habitable

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Space

We now know how the mysterious ridges covering Europa’s surface formed

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Physics

Earth’s magnetosphere replicated in miniature using lasers and magnets

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