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Laser-sculpted aluminium purifies water with the power of sunlight

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Laser-sculpted aluminium purifies water with the power of sunlight

A black panel of aluminium created by lasers can purify water containing human waste and heavy metals to drinkable standards, using just sunlight

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Dexamethasone

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Dexamethasone

Solar Panels in Germany

Technology

Two-sided solar panels that track the sun produce a third more energy

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Mega solar plant uses 170,000 mirrors to generate heat for electricity

Technology

Mega solar plant uses 170,000 mirrors to generate heat for electricity

Regulars

We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system

Space

We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system

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Planet Nine

Space

Mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ on the solar system’s edge may not be real

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An asteroid strike may have popped the surface of Mars

Space

An asteroid strike may have popped the surface of Mars

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Venus

Space

Venus may have an underground magma ocean spanning the whole planet

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Computer illustration of plasma cells (B-cells) secreting antibodies against viruses

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Antibodies

Eating too much salt seems to impair body's ability to fight bacteria

Health

Eating too much salt seems to impair body's ability to fight bacteria

High salt intake seems to impair the immune cells in humans that fight bacteria because of a side effect of the hormones that help get rid of salt

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Humans

How to fight infection by turning back your immune system's clock

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Space

Tiny meteorite found in Antarctica came from an unknown asteroid

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Cytokine storm

Space

Bombing asteroid Ryugu reveals it is a spritely 9 million years old

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