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Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work

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Twisted carbon nanotubes harness waste energy and put it to work

The “twistron harvester” generates power at the highest rates for energy harvesting yet, so may finally live up to the technique’s century-long promise

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Swimming pool vents and steps resemble eyes and mouth

Life

Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us

News

Humans

A tale of how imagination came to be loses sight of the evidence

Culture

Two actors on a stage

Technology

A play called Against doesn’t know what it’s for

Culture

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

Earth

We really can run the world on renewable energy – here’s how

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drilling site in Lancashire

Earth

The push for UK fracking may be 55 million years too late

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Letters from Charles Darwin

Life

'Radical’ new biography of Darwin is unreliable and inaccurate

Culture

One chimp embracing another

Life

Grown-up chimps are less likely to help distressed friends

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A macaque

Life

Monkeys can be tricked into thinking all objects are familiar

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Gas-filled black balloons create eerie floating worlds

Artist Tadao Cern's pairs of helium and air-filled balloons floating in glass tanks show just how easily scientific principles can be turned into art

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Space

America's total eclipse: The best guides to how to prepare

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Technology

AI artist conjures up convincing fake worlds from memories

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Why UK midwives are back-pedalling on natural childbirth

Analysis

Earth

Al Gore: The return of climate science’s preacher man

Culture