Multi-layer reactive foil: no fuel, no oxygen, tons of heat
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Rock flour produced by the grinding under Greenland's glaciers can trap climate-heating carbon dioxide when spread on farm fields
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I (basically) stopped weeding thanks to this game-changing gardening method; Tilling is out. ‘No dig’ is in.
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How NASA reinvented the wheel
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The insane engineering of MRI machines
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The most dangerous substance known to man
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Wire EDM is an insanely precise manufacturing method. But there's a trick behind these objects that appear to have no seam.
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The insane engineering of the M1 Abrams
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Prince Rupert's Drop exploding in molten glass
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Explaining concrete while getting buried in it
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Green steel: Can we make steel without CO2 emissions?
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Making iron bacteria cement (water insoluble, no firing required)
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Mars will have a lot of wicker furniture
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The race across Europe to build green steel plants – construction of a plant is underway just outside Boden in northern Sweden
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Why some roadways are made of styrofoam
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IKEA is using more wood from Sweden and the Baltics to make up for not sourcing it from Russia and Belarus, which the company has shunned due to Moscow's war in Ukraine
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The insane engineering of the F-35B
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Potash buildings
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Megacities: Reality or fiction? Architecture in sci-fi.
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The world’s farms are hooked on phosphorus. It’s a problem.
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Excessive outbreaks of seaweed are clogging up our waters – now the algae is being harvested alongside farmed crops to create ingredients for cosmetics and food products
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China’s global mega-projects are falling apart
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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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