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How crooks stalled the rise of electric cars for 100 years

Battery-powered buses could have killed off the internal combustion engine long ago, if only the company making them hadn't been run by swindlers

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We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

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We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

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Technology

Wireless charger uses quantum trick to power gadgets on the move

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Life

Bioelectric tweak makes flatworms grow a head instead of a tail

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Earth

Lightning round-up: The world’s weirdest electricity

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Titan's dunes seem to face the wrong way

Space

Electrified sand could explain Titan’s odd backward-facing dunes

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Life

Grow with the flow: How electricity kicks life into shape

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The world in 2076: Goodbye electricity, hello superconductivity

Physics

The world in 2076: Goodbye electricity, hello superconductivity

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Technology

Beyond batteries: This technology could revolutionise energy

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Bacteria made to turn sewage into clean water – and electricity

A self-powered waste water treatment plant using microbes has just passed its biggest test, bringing household-level water recycling a step closer

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Physics

Shocking beauty: The unexpected charms of the high-voltage lab

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Life

Electric eels seen leaping out of water to attack land predators

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Life

Animal Electricity: How the forces inside cells actually behave

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Earth

Dark days for solar power as UK subsidies are slashed

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