Why Olympic curling stones are so expensive | So Expensive
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Known as "torfbæir", these ingeniously designed Icelandic homes helped settle one of Europe's least-hospitable environments
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Infinited Fiber has invested heavily in a technology which can transform textiles that would otherwise be burned or sent to landfills into a new clothing fibre
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These metals destroy themselves to prevent rust
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Meltwater from Greenland's ice sheet is loaded with the right kind of sand for concrete production – which further warms the planet
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Will we run out of lithium?
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World's highest jumping robot
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Greenland is ground zero for the impacts of climate change, but it could also become ground zero for sourcing the metals needed to power the solution to the crisis
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Gallium: The liquid metal that could transform soft electronics
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Controversy continues over whether hot water freezes faster than cold
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Distillation and sealing of 139g of pure cesium into a glass vial
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Racing an excavator to save this house’s wood from landfill
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Are rubber-tired trains a scam?
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Prince Rupert's Drop exploding in epoxy resin at 456,522 fps
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Making wood ash cement and building a fired brick hut
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The best carbon steel pans in 2022
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How polyester bounced back
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'Green steel' heating up in Sweden's frozen north – HYBRIT is a joint venture between SSAB, mining company LKAB and Swedish state-owned power firm Vattenfall
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Why people thought steel houses were a good idea
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The debacle of blue clay: Used once and never again
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Five things to know about nickel’s 90% price surge
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How glass recycling works
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The Gold Rush returns to California
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Why championship chess sets are so expensive | So Expensive
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Flintknapping quartz arrowheads
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EVs and batteries: The world's lithium and cobalt problems
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Turning buildings into batteries? Concrete battery storage explained.
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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 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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