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How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions

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Tobacco killed 500,000 Americans in 2020 — is it time to control cigarette-makers?

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Why you should give your grandparents a 3D printer for Christmas

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Open-source hardware could defend against the next generation of hacking

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Trade wars will boost digital manufacturing

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The problem with subsidizing nuclear power and coal

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How solar power can protect the U.S. military from threats to the electric grid

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