On the Moon, astronaut pee will be a hot commodity. Urine can be used for landing pads, gardens, and drinking water. But will there be enough to go around?
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New Tesla "million mile" battery in development that relies on little to no cobalt, poised to reshape auto economics
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Copper-coated doorknobs to kill COVID? It makes sense, say scientists
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Making aerogel
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Scientists isolate bacterial enzyme that rapidly breaks down plastic polymers into recyclable components
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Copper destroys viruses and bacteria. Why isn’t it everywhere?
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Open Platform and JAJA Architects construct Denmark's first wooden parking house, enabling Denmark reach its goal to become climate neutral in 2050
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SSAB has teamed up with Vattenfall and LKAB to build a pilot plant for the world's first fossil fuel free steel-making process
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Struggling to keep up, Finland exports plastic waste – a quarter of all plastic waste will be sent to facilities in Sweden or Germany for sorting and repurposing
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This simple crib cost $28,885 to make—because it was made with zero fossil fuels
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Making radioactive uranium glass
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Wood joint strength testing
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Finland to become EU's only uranium producer – Finnish government gave the green light on Thursday for state-owned Terrafame to extract and refine
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Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect?
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IBM’s lithium-ion battery uses seawater materials instead of heavy metals, charges in just five minutes
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Copenhagen-based firm Henning Larsen Architects has proposed a low-rise neighborhood south of central Copenhagen using all-timber construction
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Making carbonated water by burning diamonds
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Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
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ETH researchers used a 3D printing process to produce complex and highly porous glass objects
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Correcting the historical bias against domestic materials
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A new slippery coating could help reduce water usage
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The next graphene? Shiny and magnetic, a new form of pure carbon dazzles with potential.
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Instant stone (just add water!)
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Researchers have created glass which can bend and compress
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Diagnosing the steel failure in the SF Transit Center
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The world’s largest 3D metal printer is churning out rockets
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The material science of metal 3D printing
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Why palladium is suddenly a more precious metal
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China is forcing the world to rethink recycling
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Crafting a precise spirit level out of glass
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Engineering with origami
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Hodinkee's review of the Apple Watch Series 5 Edition in titanium
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This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite.
News article: This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite. Submission from the geologists to The Meteoritical Society: "Edscottite, Fe5C2, A new iron...
News article: This meteorite came from the core of another planet. Inside it, a new mineral: Edscottite.
Submission from the geologists to The Meteoritical Society: "Edscottite, Fe5C2, A new iron carbide mineral from the Wedderburn iron meteorite." PDF link
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Climate change plans need to account for the manufacturing of materials like steel, cement, plastic, glass, aluminum, and paper
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America is obsessed with beef. But it has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge
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A new Swedish bicycle is made from 300 recycled Nespresso pods
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Finland's vital role in the production of graphene
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Scientists from the University of Borås are exploring the possibility of converting old pieces of glutinous waste into yarn
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Ancient technology: Saxon glass-working experiment
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Could just-add-water products save us?
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Concrete Utopia: An art exhibition on Yugoslavia documents an extraordinary architectural legacy that has been neglected by mainstream historians
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Making ferrofluid from scratch
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Clothing - linen, merino, cotton, polyester?
I personally am not a big clothes shopper, I pretty much replace underwear/socks when they break or I lose them, and once per year, I buy some clothes. Yesterday I bought my first linen T-shirt....
I personally am not a big clothes shopper, I pretty much replace underwear/socks when they break or I lose them, and once per year, I buy some clothes. Yesterday I bought my first linen T-shirt. And it feels so airy and comfy, it's amazing and not itchy. What do you guys prefer to wear?
Where do you guys source your clothes, also in regard to ethics - no child labor. I guess second-hand clothes are the best in that regard?
Does anyone here feel strongly about a specific material? I heard merino is supposed to feel amazing, but the price tag keeps me from getting a shirt haha.11 votes -
Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste
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Manganese heptoxide, the chemical that really doesn't want to exist
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Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively
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Metal has no odor, so what are we smelling? | Making 1-octen-3-one
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Why the world’s best mathematicians are hoarding chalk
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Maine is the first state to ban styrofoam
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How US recycling is changing now that China won’t take it
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