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Magnifying Solar Panels' Energy As Cheap as Coal, Start-up Claims

If you've ever set a leaf aflame with a magnifying glass, you'll understand the basics of the photovoltaic cells that may finally make renewable energy affordable enough for everyone. "The world runs...

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What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain [Explainer]

For all of its wild popularity, caffeine is one seriously misunderstood substance. It's not a simple upper, and it works differently on different people with different tolerances—even in differen...

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Iceland Considers Humanoid Pylon Design to Carry Electricity

By Duncan Geere, Wired UK An architecture and design firm called Choi+Shine has submitted a design for the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition which proposes giant...

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We won’t reach Alpha Centauri until the 24th century…unless we have an energy...

If you take humanity's current energy and technological capacity and project a steady increase into the future, the chances of us reaching the stars any time soon look bleak. Even our nearest stellar...

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Six science selections

How Radiation Threatens Health – Why and how does exposure to radiation make you ill? What levels of exposure are dangerous and what levels are lethal? Fukushima is a triumph for nuke power – Quake +...

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Biofuels, Speculation Blamed for Global Food Market Weirdness

A new analysis of sudden rises in global food prices puts the blame on biofuel policy and mortgage-meltdown-style speculation, which may have fundamentally changed how food markets function. Many...

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