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How Batteries Work
What's actually going on inside your smartphone battery right now? The answer, it turns out, is: rather a lot.
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Britain's headlong slide from silicon supremacy to silicon irrelevance
The forgotten story of how an obscure English engineer very nearly invented the integrated circuit. And what happened next.
Atoms for Copper
The totally implausible but totally true story about the plan to use nuclear weapons for mining. It very nearly happened!
The Race to Win the Industrial Revolution
A tiny company near the clifftops at the most northerly point in mainland Britain might be about to play a small but important role in the biggest…
How Coal Helped Avert an Environmental Disaster
Or: why technological solutions often turn into their own problems a century or so down the line
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The Salt Diaspora
We mostly only pay attention to the chemicals sector when something goes wrong. That's a mistake.
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It’s the Energy, Stupid
If you want to understand one of the main driving forces behind the economy, follow the tomatoes...
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