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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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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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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