After a unanimous local vote in 1996, the Swedish town of Växjö became the first in the world to commit to becoming fossil fuel free
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Cooking with black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid
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Get all Megascans for free
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Quartz producing location Spruce Pine, North Carolina just got hit by hurricane Helene. The fallout on the tech industry could be huge.
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The world’s first wooden satellite was launched into space, will begin testing in December
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Sweden abolishes tax on plastic bags despite warnings usage could rise – centre-right coalition government says consumption already below EU target
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How guayule, a small shrub, could help the US rubber industry
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Carbon myopia is concealing a deeper problem: our insatiable appetite for materials
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Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
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‘Paper or plastic?’ will no longer be a choice at California grocery stores
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Cement is a big polluter. Heidelberg Materials in Norway is betting it can profit from carbon capture that will reduce the carbon dioxide.
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Is the world really running out of sand?
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Making an atomic trampoline
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Comprehensive bipartisan plastics recycling bill tackles plastics pollution in US
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Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry can tell us about the future of America
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Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure.
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Houston's plastic waste, waiting more than a year for "advanced" recycling, piles up at a business failed three times by fire marshal
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Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste overseas?
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Why Lego is so expensive | So Expensive
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This store only sells fake food
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Scientists are now preparing to drill into the rock of Krafla in Iceland to learn more about how volcanoes behave
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Thousands protest against lithium mining in Serbia
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Heidelberg Materials' cement plant in Norway will be the first of a handful around the world to capture carbon in the production of cement
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Smashing idea: how East Germany invented ‘unbreakable’ drinking glasses
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Was early modern writing paper expensive?
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The deadliest of all dead ends in the 3D printing industry
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How Ernest Wright scissors are handmade
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Mining firm Rare Earths Norway says it has discovered Europe's largest proven deposit of highly prized rare earth elements
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Why 3D printing buildings leads to problems
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'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement
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The engineering of duct tape
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In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
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New analysis of wooden finds at Schöningen show wood was crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
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The magic of the blackboard
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How to escape from the Iron Age? We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
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When you make a mathematical knot using elastic material you get jumping loops, and challenging puzzles
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Joe Biden administration commits $6B to cut US emissions from high-carbon industries
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Turning styrofoam into cinnamon candy
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How the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird works
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Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America
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How can mining precious metals ever be sustainable?
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Zero emissions heat technologies for industry
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Scientists make breakthrough discovery while experimenting with urine
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The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea
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Inside the crime rings trafficking sand
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Can hydrogen help the world reach net zero?
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How nuclear weapons and nuclear materials are transported
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Pop-up tents work in a really clever way
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LK-99 isn’t a superconductor — how science sleuths solved the mystery
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Engineering question about rust free steel construction
What do companies do to make their products corrosion resistant?
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