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In preparation for Star Trek: Into Darkness, we have been rewatching all of the old Next Generation episodes. One of the series' most memorable moments is when a crew member casually walks over to a replicator and orders...

Two of four reaction wheels seized up, critical for precise photometry Excerpt from the Kepler Mission Manager Update. (h/t to Dr. Leif Svalgaard) At our semi-weekly contact on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, we found the Kepler spacecraft...

Government postpones £11bn rollout of new household gas and electricity meters as suppliers work on 'smooth' switchoverIn the latest reverse on energy policy the government has been forced to delay the introduction of household...

I’m killing time. Right now I’m waiting for updates and downloads to complete on my office work computer, a machine that I went to great trouble to make bulletproof. For example, I run a top-end Intel SSD and...

I have to wonder if this is a good idea, what with so many other green ventures not living up to expectations, this might actually end up getting people killed if it isn’t fully tested before making it into the …...

Why is it necessary for those writing about the future UK energy situation like Michael Hanlon (Energy, not bribery, 2 May) to refer to "the lights going out"? The outcome is likely to be far less dramatic...

Apocalyptic predictions are circulating about the size of electricity bills in 2030 if the move to green power goes ahead. There is no need for them to come trueThe UK's energy policy is not "plausible" and a "crisis" is...

Günther Oettinger says government's plans to strike 40-year contracts for new nuclear plants with EDF are 'Soviet'A prominent clean energy campaigner has been banned from the European Energy Forum after tweeting...

From the I’ll believe it when I see it department comes this claim. From R&D magazine: Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices...

From the I’ll believe it when I see it department comes this claim. From R&D magazine: Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices...

A ship moored off Beirut is helping Lebanon overcome electricity shortages – and many developing countries may follow suitMoored at a specially constructed dock 100 metres off the coast of Beirut, a huge hulk of a ship...

3D printing is already capable of fabricating a beak for an injured bald eagle and three-quarters of a prosthetic human skull. Now, scientists at the University of Notre Dame have successfully recreated an entire skeleton...

The UK jobs market has changed incredibly over the past 100 years; even the past decade has seen a proliferation of new roles. We look at a selection and ask whether your role existed 10 years agoCan you imagine a world without...

Is modern life making us ill? Yes, say those who suffer from electrosensitivity. Are they cranks, or should we all be throwing away our mobile phones?Tim Hallam is just tall enough to seem gangly. His height...

An excerpt from a film made by photographer Thomas Ball on his on-going project on electrosensitivity