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Farms can install vertical solar panels without reducin...

Adding rows of upright panels on farmland generates green power in the morning a...

Trump's exit from World Health Organization could backf...

The US contributes around a fifth of the budget for the World Health Organizatio...

Sicily's hills were 40 metres below water during Earth'...

The megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5 million years ago was so hug...

The US is leaving the Paris Agreement – what happens next?

The world’s largest economy and second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases will ...

Thinking a drug is a knockoff generic can cause worse s...

People seem to assume that expensive branded drugs will be less likely to cause ...

Extremely cold atoms can selectively defy entropy

When their quantum properties are precisely controlled, some ultracold atoms can...

Twisted crystals show hints of a new kind of supercondu...

A double layer of tungsten diselenide behaves as a superconductor at very low te...

Dinosaurs may have first evolved in the Sahara and Amaz...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now fo...

An orchid uses a finger-like appendage to pollinate itself

More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the pur...

Giant sloths lived alongside humans in South America fo...

South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived th...

Trump-backed Stargate Project could strain the US energ...

The Stargate Project aims to build huge data centres for AI development – but th...

A hole-filled battery could make wearables more breatha...

A lithium battery patterned with holes is flexible, stretchable and allows more ...

Electric cars now last as long as petrol and diesel cou...

Records from UK vehicle safety tests show that the average lifespan of an electr...

What Trump's first week means for climate, science, hea...

In a barrage of executive orders, President Donald Trump has set the US on cours...

Experimental XB-1 aircraft goes supersonic for the firs...

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 aircraft broke the sound barrier during three test runs, ...

Quantum-inspired algorithm could enable better weather ...

An algorithm inspired by quantum computers but used on classical machines can ma...

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