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Main ? Voyager 2 view of Neptune, captured in August 1989. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill

Space

Neptune has been slowly cooling for 15 years when it should be warming

Nearly two decades of observations have shown that Neptune's southern hemisphere has been slowly cooling down when it should be heating up, and we don’t know why

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A solar power plant at night

Technology

Solar panels that work at night produce enough power to charge a phone

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Environment

UK government backs plan to harvest solar power from space

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Technology

Static electricity can keep desert solar panels free of dust

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Radiation map

Physics

Chernobyl radiation spike probably from Russian tanks disturbing dust

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Ukrainian soldiers

Technology

Risk of nuclear disaster is minimal as Russian forces reach Chernobyl

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Description: Camera image of a plasma inside the TCV tokamak, regions of different colors correspond to different temperatures of the hot plasma. The center of the plasma is so hot that it does not emit visible light. Credit: Curdin W?thrich / SPC/EPFL

Technology

DeepMind uses AI to control plasma inside tokamak fusion reactor

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Space

Mars may have been habitable millions of years later than we thought

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Uranus and Neptune

Space

We may now know why Uranus and Neptune are different shades of blue

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MEK84H Sun fusion energy and Artificial intelligence technology can help physicists predict hazardous solar flares and warning to protect power grids and com

Physics

How does the sun shine? Here's why we are still a little in the dark

The basics of how fusion works inside stars like the sun is more complicated than it is sometimes portrayed. We shouldn't be surprised that the details are imperfectly understood, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Space

Leigh Fletcher interview: Why we urgently need a mission to Neptune

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Space

Sample of asteroid Ryugu brought to Earth is a strange dark colour

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Space

Super-fast impacts may have made Venus an uninhabitable hellhole

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Technology

Snow-proof solar panels keep working even in icy weather

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