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Solar panels installed in wild brush land near Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa.

Environment

What made solar power the most desirable energy source on the planet?

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explains how the creation of living solar panels transformed their impact on the world

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Why caring for your microbiome is crucial if you want to live to 100

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Why caring for your microbiome is crucial if you want to live to 100

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Health

Good immune health may come at the expense of chronic inflammation

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Chemistry

Sun-powered device extracts lithium without wrecking the environment

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Environment

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

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Antibiotics normally don’t increase the risk of autoimmune disorders

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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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Health

New subtype of diabetes found in youths from sub-Saharan Africa

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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

In Here Comes the Sun, environmentalist Bill McKibben argues that the rapid adoption of solar power should quell our worst climate fears. Is he right, asks James Dinneen

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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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Health

Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to treat arthritis

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Technology

Solar drone with wingspan wider than jumbo jet could fly for months

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