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Fire is spreading in the Chernobyl exclusion zone after drone crash

A drone has crashed in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, causing a fire that has spread to 12 square kilometres of land. Dry weather, strong winds and the presence of land mines are complicating efforts to bring the blaze under control

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Space

The rise, the fall and the rebound of cyclic cosmology

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��ý of the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the NAS of Ukraine in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, December 15, 2025. Anatoly Doroshenko

Physics

The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor

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Chernobyl 2022

Physics

Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

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Dust rising from combine during crop harvesting, no-till technology professional occupation.

Environment

The Iran war is exposing the huge risks in our food system

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Environment

Plug-in solar is coming – how dangerous is it and is it worth it?

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The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe

Space

The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe

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Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of a neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binary merger, showing the disruption of the neutron star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University).

Space

A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one

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Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?

Space

Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?

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Environment

Is geothermal energy on the cusp of a worldwide renaissance?

The UK's first geothermal plant in Cornwall is part of a wave of projects aiming to meet growing electricity demand, some of them enabled by technology from oil and gas fracturing

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Mind

It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day

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Physics

The mystery of nuclear 'magic numbers' has finally been resolved

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Environment

This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nears 100% renewables

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Environment

Old EV batteries could meet most of China's energy storage needs

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