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Sun-powered device extracts lithium without wrecking the environment

An experimental new method for extracting lithium from brine and even seawater promises to be more sustainable than existing methods

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Environment

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

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Space

There might be a 'Planet Y' hiding in the outer solar system

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Space

Ceres may have been habitable at just half a billion years old

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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)

Environment

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

Culture

6 of the most fascinating moments in the life of our solar system

Space

6 of the most fascinating moments in the life of our solar system

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Space

A planet the size of Saturn could orbit the nearest sun-like star

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Earth

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

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Skydweller Aero

Technology

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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Technology

Cyberattacks could exploit home solar panels to disrupt power grids

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Look inside the revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory

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Space

Vera Rubin Observatory has already found thousands of new asteroids

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Earth

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

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