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18 Apr 2012: grade silicon from around the current $40–200/kg to a maximum of $8/kg, making solar power a more affordable option to generate power.

19 Jan 2012: It lived during the early Jurassic Period, and is around 200 million years old.

14 May 2012: Constructed to provide a ninth of the country’s electricity, the Three Gorges Dam permanently submerged some 1,200 cities and villages and displaced more than a million people in central

7 Feb 2012: It must have been just such an occasion when the author Charles Dickens, who was born 200 years ago today, sat down in a Liverpool hotel to write to his son

23 Mar 2012: Covering almost two hectares, the 19,000-year-old site was occupied for 1,200 years and is, as Dr Stock described, “so huge, it’s the earliest sign of human

26 Apr 2012: Technology has improved to such an extent since Hipparcos was launched that Gaia will be able to measure a star’s position and motion 200 times more accurately, and will measure

6 Apr 2012: For example, ‘pneumatic’ air-filled bones first appeared in Late Triassic dinosaurs, 200 million years ago, and were common in saurischians like Tyrannosaurus rex and Diplodocus.

15 Mar 2012: biomarker data from more than 200,000 participants compiled from 82 previous studies. ... Nearly 200,000 people die from cardiovascular disease in the UK every year, comprising one in three of all deaths.

21 Mar 2012: Energy is a research theme of strategic importance at the University of Cambridge, where we have more than 200 academics working on energy-related projects and strong links with a range

17 Sep 2012: The oldest fossil remains of anatomically modern humans are found in Africa and date back to around 200 thousand years ago, but there is no trace outside Africa until 100 thousand