The hidden engineering of runways
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2025 was a dumpster fire, so I made it into a model | Light-up flaming dumpster sculpture
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The Rainbow Bastard | Sculpting a medieval manuscript demon
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Scientists find foreign trees and one fingerprint on iron age warship from Scandinavia
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A medical mystery from postwar Germany
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How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark's oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint
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Vålerenga call for anti-doping changes after artificial pitch causes footballer to fail drug test – Norwegian pitch had contained DMBA and transferred to players during the game
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Gluing and framing a 9000-piece jigsaw
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MIT researchers develop polymer film that could prevent solar panel corrosion
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Swedish parliament votes to allow uranium mining – now classed as a concession mineral, especially useful for society
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How nuclear power ambitions aim to wean Finland off Russian energy – nuclear share in electricity production went from 28% in 2022 to 39% in 2025
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As the US and the West races to break China's stranglehold over rare earths production, some firms are betting that Greenland will become a new mining frontier
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How Casio made an indestructible watch (G-Shock)
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Iceland's volcanoes might have an unexpected new purpose – an architect duo want to harness molten lava to shape the construction of houses and cities of the future
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Construction firms across the Nordic region have made a high stakes bet on the world's largest green steel project in Sweden
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Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts
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Diamond blankets will keep future chips cool
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A tower on Billionaires' Row in New York City is full of cracks. Who's to blame?
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Can we bury enough wood to slow climate change?
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Optical diffraction patterns and almost-holograms made with a MOPA laser engraving machine
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How the Golden Gate Bridge works
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Swedish startup Saveggy launches pilot scheme for edible, plastic-free packaging for cucumbers – innovative solution made from just two ingredients: rapeseed oil and gluten-free oat oil
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Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again: giant blocks resurface after 2,000 years
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Catalytic converters are simple, but getting them to work is not
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For more than ten years, experts have been painstakingly planning to move three 1,000-year-old vessels—the Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune—about 115 yards to their new home in Oslo
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Cathedral-like health centre in Copenhagen aims to boost wellbeing – designed by architecture studio Dorte Mandrup for the historic Nørrebro district
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Stones have been ‘overfished’ from the sea – here's how Denmark's rocky reefs are being restored
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The battle for sand: murders, impunity and environmental destruction in the Dominican Republic
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We tested Radius beef for plastic chemicals
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How to build a 13th-century castle in rural France
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Jessica Joslin
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The sinking of the Sleipner A offshore platform in 1991
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Denmark's National Museum unveils gaming piece which is believed to be the first portrait of a Viking – figurine depicts man with imperial moustache, braided beard and a neatly-groomed hairstyle
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Pioneering method turns plastic into fuel with 95% efficiency
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Norway's Olympic gold medallists Marius Lindvik and Johann André Forfang accept three-month suspensions for suit-tampering at the 2025 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
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Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV
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In Norway's far north, members of the Sámi minority and environmental activists are trying to block the construction of a copper mine
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Norway's Northern Lights project is seen as a model for efforts to pump carbon dioxide deep into wells, but high costs remain an obstacle
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Making a realistic sculpture of Trogdor the Burninator
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He sucks sins through his nose | Sculpting a medieval demon
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Malaysia no longer takes US plastic waste, creating a dilemma for California
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Steel reinvented: inside the world’s first plant to burn no fossil fuels [tour]
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Norwegian town of Ulefoss sits on top of a rare earth deposit – the reserves could help to reduce the EU's dependency on China for the elements needed in tech such as phones
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The hidden engineering of floating bridges
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Beware of the “lasagna cell”: The danger of food and metals
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A company called Inventwood is starting to mass-produce "superwood"
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The robot sculptors of Italy
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Disappearing polymorph
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Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles
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Meeting client requirements of a 200-year design life for the Kruunuvuori Bridge in Finland demanded ingenuity in structural engineering and material choices
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