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Solar modules first switched on in 1979 and permanently installed at the University of Oldenburg in 1983 are still producing almost as much electricity as when they were first installed more than four decades later
What happened when a doctor traced a deadly 1854 London outbreak to a single street pump, removed its handle, and effectively invented modern epidemiology in the process?
Most rooftop monocrystalline solar cells begin as wafers sliced from one continuous crystal pulled from molten silicon at 1,414 degrees Celsius, in a growth cycle that can run for roughly two days before the finished panel reaches a roof
How does a spacecraft launched in 1977, now more than 24 billion kilometres away, still transmit data back to Earth on roughly the power of a hallway light bulb?
Lithium-ion battery electrodes can now be regenerated to about 95 percent of original capacity in an electrochemical bath that skips shredding, smelting, and acid leaching entirely, treating a dead cell more like a rechargeable one than a bag of scrap metal
In 1665, Robert Hooke pressed a sliver of cork under his hand-ground microscope, saw tiny empty chambers that reminded him of monks' rooms, and named them cells in a folio so lavish that Samuel Pepys stayed up until two in the morning reading it
Sunlight striking a rooftop panel takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to arrive from the Sun, but the photons themselves spent roughly 100,000 years bouncing through the Sun's dense interior before reaching its surface
What happened when a Central Asian inland sea, once the fourth largest lake on Earth, was cut off from its rivers and shrank to a tenth of its volume, and why is the northern lobe now rising again?
Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, meaning some swimming the North Atlantic today were alive when Bach was composing, and nearly all of them spend those centuries functionally blind because a parasitic crustacean latches to each eye
World urged to make clean energy cheaper than coal
