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It's bittersweet.Slow 'BineIt's a little bittersweet, but the UK actually produced more wind power than the system could handle this week.Wednesday's Bloomberg report said a few wind farms in Scotland were asked to reduce output by 25 megawatts, or about as much as two average US households uses in a year. The finance pub says UK grids are having trouble coping with all the power their ocean and land wind farms generate, nor does the country have the ability to store large amounts of it in batteries.Additionally,…

via Overture Films Gerard Butler makes a lot of action thrillers, which is admittedly underselling things drastically, but one of his most popular remains 2009’s vicious Law Abiding Citizen. F. Gary Gray’s surprisingly dark, disturbing, and violent tale of one man’s unstoppable quest for revenge may have only landed a 26 percent Rotten Tomatoes score, but a vastly superior user rating of 75 percent shows just how much more the target audience enjoyed watching the grizzled Scotsman get his hands dirty. A $126…

Snowflakes etched in graphene at Skoltech. The light areas are graphene, and the dark ones are oxidized copper. The snowflake pattern emerged as the surrounding graphene was etched away by carbon dioxide in one of the experiments before the optimal gas composition was found. Credit: Artem Grebenko/SkoltechResearchers have proposed the first <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>graphene</div><div…