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Hurricane Beryl: Hurricane forecasts are improving – but big misses are still possible

[ad_1] Hurricane Beryl over Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula on 5 July Associated Press / Alamy Before slamming into islands in Grenada this month, Hurricane Beryl strengthened

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Diamond could be the super semiconductor the US power grid needs

[ad_1] Diamond has excellent semiconductor properties Richard Kail/Science Photo Library As the US power grid struggles with a historic rise in electricity demand, diamond semiconductors

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A new formula for defining a planet still keeps Pluto out of the club

[ad_1] Pluto is a dwarf planet NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute A mathematical formula to determine whether objects in space should be

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Renewable energy: How incredibly simple tech can supercharge the race to net zero

[ad_1] Puwadol Jaturawutthichai/Alamy Some 450 kilometres north of Helsinki, Finland, lies a decommissioned mine. Despite its remote location, it is being keenly watched because it

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Saturn’s moon Titan has an equivalent of freshwater rivers and salty oceans

[ad_1] The north polar region of Titan, imaged using radar signals from the Cassini probe, with hydrocarbon seas coloured blue NASA / JPL-Caltech / Agenzia

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People at risk of overdose could be fitted with an anti-opioid implant

[ad_1]   Drug overdose deaths have soared in North America over the past two decades Victor Moussa / Alamy A pacemaker-like device that is implanted

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Bird flu cases may be going undetected in US dairy workers

[ad_1] A strain of bird flu has been circulating in dairy cows for almost five months Lauren Justice/Bloomberg via Getty Images US health officials are

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The physicist who wants to build a telescope bigger than Earth

[ad_1] We are living in the era of black hole photography. In 2019, the first picture taken of a black hole was released. Unsurprisingly, it

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Raindrop-powered generator harvests electricity from the weather

[ad_1] Putting raindrops to work is an unusual idea Derek Croucher / Alamy A generator that harvests the pitter-patter of raindrops can produce enough electricity

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Deep pit on moon may be entrance to cave that could act as lunar base

[ad_1] An illustration of the proposed below-ground shape of Mare Tranquillitatis pit on the lunar surface Wagner and Robinson There is probably a network of