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Theresa May vows to make Britain 'go-to' destination for scientists with £2bn R&D boost

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Chile seeks solar breakthrough down the mine

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Oil and gas firms agree 'unprecedented' $1bn climate funding

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Companies band together to pursue brightest renewable energy ideas

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Commercial CO2 re-use a step closer as innovation program seeks industrial partners

EnCO2re programme now looking for industrial partners to scale up race to use CO2 as a feedstock in plastic manufacturing

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Power walking: Technology could harness energy from footsteps

Researchers develop new method to produce electricity from wood pulp fibres using only footsteps

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Could the cement industry mix up an emissions-free breakthrough?

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Breakthrough as MIT scientists set nuclear fusion pressure record

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Johnson Matthey Battery Systems cuts ribbon on new UK facility

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Power dressing: smart fabric generates electricity from sun and wind

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Siemens unveils new hot rocks energy storage system

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Could UK small modular reactors be in operation by 2030?

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The old joke suggests nuclear fusion is always 30 years away, but undeterred a British firm is now working to connect a nuclear fusion reactor to the grid by 2030

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Sea slugs to energy? Why ascidians are being cultivated to fuel AD plants

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Scientists hail perovskite breakthrough to boost solar cell efficiency

Research into how Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites (HOIPs) turn sunlight into energy could open door to far higher efficiency solar panels

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Going round in circles: Arup opens doors to pioneering 'circular building'

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Negative emissions research in line for £8.3m funding boost

Funding from BEIS, Met Office and scientific research councils will further UK research into technologies to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at 'climatically relevant scale'

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Meet the 22-year-olds tackling our plastic waste

Start-up BioCellection is negotiating for the first commercial use of its polystyrene recycling technology

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