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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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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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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