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Zimbabwe launches $500-mln power units to ease energy woes

Kariba, Zimbabwe (AFP) Sept 04, 2014 - Energy-starved Zimbabwe on Thursday launched a $533-million project with China to scale up electricity generation at one of its major power plants in a bid to ease perennial energy woes.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jun 25, 2026

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In 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling exposed a hydrated DNA fibre to X-rays for 62 hours, producing Photo 51: the pattern that helped Watson and Crick build the correct double-helix model months later

In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling exposed a single hydrated DNA fibre to an X-ray beam for 62 hours in a basement at King's College London. The resulting Photo 51 showed the helix so clearly that its geometry could be read straight off the plate — months before Watson and Crick built their model.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jul 30, 2026
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A water-harvesting jacket developed at the University of Texas can collect up to 900 millilitres a day from ambient air, but the captured moisture still has to be heated before it becomes drinkable

Reports of a Swiss materials lab's prototype jacket that harvests close to a litre of drinking water per day from ambient humidity sit on top of a decade of peer-reviewed work on passive sorbent hydrogels — including an MIT panel that produced up to 161.5 millilitres a day in Death Valley with no electricity at all.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jul 30, 2026
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What happened when pastoral communities across 8,890 square kilometres changed how they lived with predators, and field attacks fell from 516 to 300 while attempted retaliatory killings dropped from 19 to 3?

Across 8,890 square kilometres of Maasai rangeland in Kenya and Tanzania, communities have replaced fences with living-tree enclosures, rapid-response conflict teams and planned grazing — and predator attacks fell 42 percent while household incomes rose.

By Energy Daily Editorial Team · Jul 29, 2026

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