My eye was caught this week by a feature article about the history of human cannibalism To be precise, I first saw it thanks to a comment by a friend enquiring “Did a cannibal write this?” (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26134783-600-is-it-time-for-a-more-subtle-
These digests of latest research stories which catch my eye will be paid-for content on the Alcedo newsletter once it’s up and running. We’ve been using solar cells for longer than you think. The underlying science – the photovoltaic effect, when sunlight dislodges electrons from the structure of
I’ve been writing about nuclear fusion since about 2005 (when, of course, it was supposed to be available by now) so the news about the largest ever amount of energy obtained through it - at JET, the Joint European Torus experimental tokamak in Culham, Oxfordshire, seemed particularly significant. A tokomak
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