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A serviceman with a Russian flag on his uniform stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko - RC2LPV9MUYER

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Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant 'not designed to withstand fighting'

A scientist in Ukraine warns that the reactor at Europe’s largest nuclear power station is designed to protect against some threats, but not shelling

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A pregnant person receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against covid-19 in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania in February 2021

Health

Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy not linked to miscarriage or stillbirth

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T806G0 LLNL, National Ignition Facility Preamplifiers, 2012

Physics

Ignition confirmed in a nuclear fusion experiment for the first time

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Unlike in other primates, the human voice box has lost small tissue structures called vocal membranes, which may have been involved in the evolution of speech

Humans

Losing parts of our voice box may have helped humans evolve to speak

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Millimetre-wave beams could give us access to deep geothermal energy

Environment

Millimetre-wave beams could give us access to deep geothermal energy

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Steam rises from an oil refinement facility. Two American flags are displayed in an industrial setting with many pipes, tanks, and buildings.

Environment

10 finance firms effectively own half of all future carbon emissions

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Climate Activists Protest Congressional Baseball Game, Washington, d.c., United States - 28 Jul 2022

Environment

What does the Inflation Reduction Act mean for US carbon emissions?

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Photograph of a stencil-printed two-cell paper battery with a design that spells the name of the authors' research institution (Empa). The battery is running a liquid crystal display alarm clock. Credit: Alexandre Poulin.

Technology

Disposable paper battery is activated by a drop of tap water

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Air source heat pump installers

Environment

UK's slow heat pump efforts will take 600 years to meet 2050 target

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A view of the former Woodhouse Colliery site where West Cumbria Mining are seeking approval to once again extract coal

Environment

Cumbria coal mine should be a no go for new levelling up secretary

Greg Clark must think twice before giving the green light to the UK's first new coal mine in decades. It would be indefensible on climate grounds, says Adam Vaughan

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Physics

Time loops may not be forbidden by physics after all

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Society

Why elite universities like Cambridge must ditch big oil funding

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Environment

Deepwater Horizon oil spill did no harm to BP's long-term share value

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Health

Parts of the brain form a circuit that may fuel smoking addiction

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