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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Bricks and the Industrial Revolution
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Study confirms superior sound of a Stradivari is due to the varnish
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Swedish green steel venture HYBRIT has made the world's first customer delivery of steel, produced without using coal, to Volvo
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The surprising genius of 3D printed rockets
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Cheap material could help convert waste heat into electricity
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Three months in Monte Carlo
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Wood construction and the risk of fire
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The promise and peril of turning the Salton Sea into California's "Lithium Valley"
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World's tallest sandcastle has been completed in Denmark, towering more than twenty metres high and comprising nearly 5,000 tonnes of sand
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World's first wooden satellite set to launch – European Space Agency materials experts are contributing a suite of experimental sensors to the mission
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Cornell researchers see atoms at record resolution
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The world economy is suddenly running low on everything
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Making transparent wood
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Lumber prices soar, but logs are still dirt cheap
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The price of lumber is up 193% at an all time high — and about to spike even higher
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The thirteen metre long table built from single planks of 5000 year old oak
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There are signs the world might be running out of natural rubber. Disease, climate change and plunging global prices have put the world's rubber supplies into jeopardy.
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Arctic island finds green power can be a curse – Greenland's rare-earth elements are attracting superpowers riding a green revolution
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TreeToTextile set to build demonstration plant in Sweden – several Nordic pulp makers are part of projects developing new clean ways to turn trees into textile fibre
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Low cost metal 3D printing by electrochemistry
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First-ever atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
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Physicists have observed an entirely new state of matter called 'Liquid Glass'
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Wooden buildings that won’t burn
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Rebuilding after a wildfire? Most states don't require fire-resistant materials
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What exactly is the goop inside a lava lamp?
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Why PVC cement spins like crazy in water
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Meet Oklo, the Earth’s two-billion-year-old only known natural nuclear reactor
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Iron, how did they make it? Part I, Mining
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I made a laptop table
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Colonial life and the burning of wood
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Here are Tesla’s biggest announcements from Battery Day: Elon Musk said the company will phase out cobalt and aims for a $25k car
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How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century
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The millions being made from cardboard theft
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Denmark’s 300-year-old homes of the future – thatched with a seaweed that has the potential to be a contemporary building material
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Origin of the elements in the Solar System
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Titanium: The metal that made the SR-71 possible
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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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