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Solar panels installed in wild brush land near Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa.

Environment

What made solar power the most desirable energy source on the planet?

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explains how the creation of living solar panels transformed their impact on the world

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Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won't be ready any time soon

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Chemistry

Sun-powered device extracts lithium without wrecking the environment

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

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Physics

Nuclear fusion gets a boost from a controversial debunked experiment

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TOPSHOT - This photo taken on August 16, 2022 shows solar panels among Sichuan pepper field in Bijie, in China's southwestern Guizhou province. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

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Bill McKibben makes a powerful pitch for solar in optimistic new book

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How superheavy chemistry could rearrange the periodic table

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Earth

Deep-living microbes could 'eat' energy generated by earthquakes

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Solar drone with wingspan wider than jumbo jet could fly for months

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Could old mines host all the solar energy we need?

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Could old mines host all the solar energy we need?

There may be enough space on former open-pit mines to build all the solar facilities we need, but building there won’t be easy

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Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt power grids

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Physics

Could Israel's bombing trigger a nuclear accident in Iran?

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Earth

Could natural hydrogen from underground help the UK get to net zero?

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The prospectors hunting hydrogen along a US continental rift

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