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Lithium company Ioneer scores $700 million conditional loan from Energy Department for Nevada plant
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Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals has been found in Sweden – may not reach market before 10-15 years' time due to environmental risk evaluations
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‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
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As demand for electric vehicles soars, Stora Enso in Finland has hired engineers to look into the possibility of using lignin, a polymer found in trees, to make batteries
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Where does all the cardboard come from?
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Has Sweden invented green steel?
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Why Norway's churches look weird
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In meteorite, Alberta researchers discover two minerals never before seen on Earth
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The story of solar-grade silicon
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The world depends on this government warehouse's collection of strange Standard Reference Materials. They're not cheap.
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Is Helsinki city centre's new neighbourhood, Wood City, the future of building? Developers are increasingly swapping out concrete and steel in favour of wood.
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An overview of concrete forming technology
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Driftwood floats thousands of kilometers from Siberia to Iceland, but it may drift no longer by 2060 due to climate change
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Why Olympic curling stones are so expensive | So Expensive
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Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments
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Infinited Fiber has invested heavily in a technology which can transform textiles that would otherwise be burned or sent to landfills into a new clothing fibre
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These metals destroy themselves to prevent rust
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Meltwater from Greenland's ice sheet is loaded with the right kind of sand for concrete production – which further warms the planet
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Will we run out of lithium?
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World's highest jumping robot
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How flip-flop art helps clean Kenya's beaches | World Wide Waste
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Greenland is ground zero for the impacts of climate change, but it could also become ground zero for sourcing the metals needed to power the solution to the crisis
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Gallium: The liquid metal that could transform soft electronics
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Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold
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Distillation and sealing of 139g of pure cesium into a glass vial
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Racing an excavator to save this house’s wood from landfill
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Are rubber-tired trains a scam?
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Carving eleven gallons of resin and wood into a whale
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Prince Rupert's Drop exploding in epoxy resin at 456,522 fps
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Making wood ash cement and building a fired brick hut
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The best carbon steel pans in 2022
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How polyester bounced back
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'Green steel' heating up in Sweden's frozen north – HYBRIT is a joint venture between SSAB, mining company LKAB and Swedish state-owned power firm Vattenfall
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Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
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The debacle of blue clay: used once and never again
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Five things to know about nickel’s 90% price surge
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How glass recycling works
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The Gold Rush returns to California
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Why championship chess sets are so expensive | So Expensive
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Flintknapping quartz arrowheads
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EVs and batteries: The world's lithium and cobalt problems
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The insane engineering of the James Webb Space Telescope
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Turning buildings into batteries? Concrete battery storage explained.
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A stockpile of aluminum in Vietnam is big enough to end a global shortage. Instead, it’s a symbol of a rather dysfunctional market.
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The ancient origins of glass
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Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs
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IKEA furniture and homeware prices are to rise as a result of lasting disruption to its supply chain – increased cost of raw materials knocked its full-year profits
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Skellefteå has wooden schools, bridges, even car parks – we visit Sweden to see what a climate-conscious future looks like
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Cosmic concrete developed from space dust and astronaut blood
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