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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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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Can bacteria help us prevent salt damage to concrete roads and bridges?
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Neri Oxman's new glass printing technique could lead to 3D-printed glass building facades
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Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs
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SpaceX goes all-in on steel Starship, scraps expensive carbon fiber Big Falcon Rocket tooling
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Making grass flow like water
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What happens now that China won't take US recycling: Many waste-management companies are simply burning recyclables or sending them to landfills
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New window film reduces energy costs
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Where will the materials for our clean energy future come from?
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What is glitter? A strange journey to the glitter factory.
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