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Making bulletproof wood
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CNC machining a wooden Game Boy
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Sculpting a 16th century alchemy dragon
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Researchers develop new mechanism to create water-repellent surfaces
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'License to hide': Western plastic waste dumped in Myanmar
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The Silk Road: Eight goods traded along the ancient network
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Is it really 100% cotton? Smartphone-sized device can analyze fabrics.
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Vikings and glass windows
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Roboforming: the future of metalworking?
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I carved a swan out of epoxy and a buckeye burl to create this unique piece of artwork
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Lego abandons effort to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles
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Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions"
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China exports of gallium and germanium, used in manufacture of semiconductors, fell to zero in August
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Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure: dating back half a million years and predating the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens
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Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
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Union Pacific still says a leak caused thirty tons of explosives ingredient ammonium nitrate to go missing
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Paper cups are just as toxic as plastic cups
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Should airships make a comeback?
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Concrete stamp from Swiss Post
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The indigenous groups fighting against the quest for 'white gold' in South America
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Engineers just made concrete 30% stronger. The secret ingredient? Coffee.
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Artist collaborates with bees to create sculptural wax skulls
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Chromium is showing immense promise as a cheap, plentiful alternative to metals used in smartphone screens and solar cells
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Butterfly-inspired films create vibrant colors while passively cooling objects
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California cement industry marks near-term progress on carbon neutrality goals
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The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
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Medical researchers report that the workers who make quartz countertops are dying of lung disease at a young age
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The Glass Age, Part 1: Flexible, Bendable Glass
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Philadelphia I-95 bridge collapse explained
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The inventor of glitter, Henry Ruschmann, also helped develop the atomic bomb
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Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it
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Scandium superconducts at the highest temperature for a pure element
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Plastics have shaped nearly every aspect of society. Now what?
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The questionable engineering of the Oceangate Titan submersible
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Harvard professor Avi Loeb has found fragments of a meteoroid that he believes could be from a spacecraft from another civilization or some technological gadget
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Dr. Angela Collier, theoretical physicist, discusses aliens, crackpots, and Avi Loeb
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How Chicago solves its overheating problem
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A massive seventy billion tonne underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock has been discovered in Norway
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Superconductor chaos
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Patagonia helps Samsung redesign washing machines to help reduce microfiber pollution
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China curbs exports of key computer chip materials
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John Goodenough, part of Nobel trio in lithium battery hunt, dies at 100
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Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world's largest wooden neighbourhood in Stockholm
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NASA opposes lithium mining at tabletop flat Nevada site used to calibrate satellites
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Scientists working to generate electricity from thin air make breakthrough
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Key building block for life found at Saturn's moon Enceladus
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Norway may soon open waters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic to sea floor mining – growing demand for important minerals, including copper and nickel
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Nanoplastic ingestion causes neurological deficits
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Japan will put a wooden satellite into orbit next year
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