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A wind turbine farm off the coast of Yorkshire, UK

Technology

Renewables overtook fossil fuels in UK electricity mix for first time

Wind farms, solar panels and biomass have outcompeted gas and coal power stations for the first time ever over a whole quarter, in a significant milestone

News

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson jokes about UK being ‘on the verge’ of nuclear fusion

News

The Hinkley Point C Construction Site

Technology

Could rising costs at Hinkley Point C end the UK's nuclear ambitions?

News

Australia has a huge shortage of the medical isotope needed for scans

Health

Australia has a huge shortage of the medical isotope needed for scans

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No sign radiation from a missile explosion has spread beyond Russia

Physics

No sign radiation from a missile explosion has spread beyond Russia

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Eight things we learned in the UK government's pre-Johnson info dump

Environment

Eight things we learned in the UK government's pre-Johnson info dump

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trinity nuclear test explosion

Definition

The invention of the nuclear bomb

crew on the Franklin expedition

Life

Chernobyl and The Terror docu-dramas expose horror's many faces

Culture

Technology

Working Hypothesis: From Finland’s climate action to a rival Chernobyl

News

Godzilla

Godzilla: King of the Monsters reveals our obsession with radiation

Godzilla is back in the film King of the monsters. Japan’s nuclear-powered creature exposes our obsession with radiation, says Simon Ings in his latest column

Culture

People in Science

Lise Meitner

Physics

Artificial sponges could pull uranium from seawater for nuclear power

News

Physics

It may become impossible to tell if Iran starts making a nuclear bomb

Analysis

Technology

HBO's Chernobyl drama highlights the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

Culture