Technology
Drones cleared to check power lines after outages
Electricity firm Commonwealth Edison, based in Illinois, become the first in the US to get permission to start sending drones to inspect damaged power lines
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Europe’s electricity grid sails through solar eclipse
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Earth
Coal bust may be behind stall in carbon emissions
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Renewable energy poised to overtake nuclear in the UK
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Physics
Reliving five eureka moments lost in history
Features
Technology
Chemical weapons sniffed quickly by zappy detector
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Earth
Seven megaprojects that would change the world
Features
Environment
Eels use electricity to remote control prey movements
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Physics
Hypnotising patterns created in electric soap films
Regulars
Health
Smartwatch detects skin’s electricity to predict seizures
Embrace measures the skin's electrical activity to detect changes that foreshadow an epileptic seizure 鈥� and sends out a distress call
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Technology
I want to build solar cells thinner than a human hair
Opinion
Technology
Food bland? Electric spoon zaps taste into every bite
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Powering up the poor shouldn’t hurt the climate
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Prosthetic hand recreates feeling of cotton bud touch
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