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Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think

Solar electricity is growing rapidly, but can it really dominate the global energy system? Here is what it will take for us to power the planet on sunshine

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Physics

We can use ordinary sugar in the search for dark matter

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Space

The centre of our galaxy may be teeming with dark matter particles

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Technology

There's a simple way we could drastically cut AI energy use

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Top 250 oil and gas firms own just 1.5% of the world's renewable power

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Physics

What it’s like to run the world’s best dark matter detector

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Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run

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Is Africa about to see the solar energy boom it needs?

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We could get most metals for clean energy without opening new mines

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In the village of Tshabula, villagers search for cobalt and copper in the waste tailings dumped by the lorries of the Chinese company Commus, which extracts minerals from one of the town's largest open-cast mines.

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Mining for renewable tech inflicts huge damage. Is there a solution?

Collecting the materials needed for renewable technologies is causing enormous environmental damage and could soon extend to the deep sea and even asteroids. Innovative solutions are poised to turn the crisis around

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Physics

Jupiter's moon Ganymede could be a giant dark matter detector

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Space

We’ve discovered the most massive black hole yet

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Environment

We can repurpose retired coal plants to produce green energy

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Rust-based battery connects to an electricity grid for the first time

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