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Can static electricity make chemistry more efficient – and greener?

Technology

Can static electricity make chemistry more efficient – and greener?

Making medicines and complex materials is messy and wasteful. Using electric fields as catalysts could make chemistry far cleaner

Features

Woman opening curtains

Technology

Smart windows can let visible light through while blocking out heat

News

Wind turbines

Technology

Wind-powered turbines could clean pollutants from our air

News

planes waiting for take off

Environment

The aviation industry has a plan to make planes green. It won't work

Insight

Greta Thunberg

Environment

We live in testing times, but there are many reasons to be optimistic

Leader

transparent solar cell

Technology

Punching holes in solar cells turns them into transparent windows

News

Mount Piper coal Power Station, Portland NSW

Environment

Australia’s push for hydrogen power may prop up fossil fuel industry

News

solar panels Chile

Technology

Massive solar panels in Chilean desert point to our renewable future

Regulars

Technology’s future isn’t gleaming, it’s dirty and biological

Technology

Technology’s future isn’t gleaming, it’s dirty and biological

Comment

High angle view of a male worker standing atop a wind turbine at dusk wearing protective work clothes and safety hardhat inspecting machinery

Environment

US green economy has 10 times more jobs than the fossil fuel industry

The green economy, covering renewable energy to environmental consultancy, is now so large in the US that it employs 10 times as many people as the fossil fuel industry

News

Environment

Climate change: Is capitalism the problem or the solution?

Culture

Technology

Global shipping needs to clean up its act now – here’s how to do it

Comment

Environment

Hydrogen has a dirty secret – let's not think it's always a green fuel

Leader

Mining the gadget scrapheap

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