What we learned this week

The Royal Meteorological Society has just announced the winners of its Weather Photographer of the Year competition, with some striking weather and climate imagery that you’ll want to see.

80% of the carbon emissions from a mobile phone are from making it in the first place, so we should keep them in use for as long as we can. Here’s an open source software project that keeps Android phones going when manufacturers stop supporting them.

Solar power beamed from space has been kicking arou...