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The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire

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Chemists tackle the tough challenge of recycling mixed plastics

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Energy-saving coating without pigment keeps the surface beneath cool

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Tennis balls serve as decent bicycle tires that don’t easily puncture

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Tungsten gold plated bar

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Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough

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The most radioactive spot in New York City can also fix your muffler

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Europium UltraGlow Powder – Green

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The Dymaxion Bathroom

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Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)

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Why do new cars look like wet putty?

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Toward customizable timber, grown in a lab

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Gore-TEX, a lightweight, waterproof fabric made from the expanded form of PTFE

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An overview of concrete forming technology

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3M Glass Cloth Tape 361

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The technology behind Bella Hadid’s spray-on dress

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Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)

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WikiHouse – Open source, modular, wood based, zero carbon housing

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YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)

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Duct Tape Book Binding – Cheepo Delux

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Some CyberPower UPSes may pose a fire hazard

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YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Engineering students create edible adhesive tape to keep burrito wrapped tightly

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Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud

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New artificial tooth enamel is harder and more durable

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List Of Adhesive Tapes

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The definitive guide that you never wanted: Backpack fabrics (2017)

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Diamond hauled from deep inside Earth holds never-before-seen mineral

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Designing for a right to repair

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Synthetic Cartilage (2020)

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The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI

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Paper Grain in Origami

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3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective

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A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley

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The only skin care that works? science video response (2020)

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My Tungsten Cube (2019)

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Medals at Tokyo olympics are recycled from discarded electronic equipment

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New ‘mirror’ fabric can cool wearers by nearly 5°C

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Patricia’s Perfect Pull: A Crystal Grower’s Story

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Unexpected 'Black Swan' defect discovered in soft matter for first time

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Large-scale origami locks into place under pressure

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Start a Business from Plastic Waste

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Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass

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Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood

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Some Proteins Change Their Folds to Perform Different Jobs

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YInMn, the First New Blue Pigment in Two Centuries

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Lobster shell patterns make concrete stronger

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Our experience with the Fediverse, and why we left

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FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks

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The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is now commercially available

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Physicist creates N95-type respirators using cotton candy machine

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To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab

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First manufactured non-cuttable material

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Proteus Technology: New Material Is Strong, Light and Non-Cuttable

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SimRefinery Recovered

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How the Nike Vaporfly War Was Lost

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To replace the additive BPA, a chemical company teams up with unlikely allies

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‘Matryoshka’ diamonds unearthed in Siberia (2019)

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Why tennis balls are yellow or green

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Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater

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Rubber concrete that self-seals and is cheaper and more environmentally friendly

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TU Delft researchers design new material by using Artificial Intelligence only

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Ceramics enter a new era with laser-welded joints

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The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial Cornea

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Reycling Plastic from the Inside Out

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The Pyrex Glass Controversy That Won't Die

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The art of scientific glass blowing (2018)

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Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing

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Making a Menger sponge in stained glass

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Why Are Printed Circuit Boards Usually Green? (2017)

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Lego Wants to Remake Its Toy Bricks without Anyone Noticing

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Scientists develop thermal camouflage that can fool infrared cameras

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Ada Diamonds sells lab-grown diamonds and jewelers can't tell

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Diamonds Suck (2006)

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Internal Documents Show Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend

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The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper

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Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of metallic glass

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Transparent ceramics made with aluminum

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Lab-grown diamonds threaten viability of the real gems

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'Alien Alloys' in The New York Times' UFO Story

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The Atomic Theory of Origami

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Concrete-free washing machines are lighter to transport, just as good in a spin

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Wood pulp extract stronger than carbon fiber or Kevlar (2012)

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Engineers Investigate a Simple, No-Bake Recipe to Make Bricks from Martian Soil

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WikiHouse – Open source buildings and interiors for self-build

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New polymer additive could revolutionize plastics recycling

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An SSD Endurance Experiment: They're All Dead (2015)

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Lab-Grown Diamonds Come into Their Own

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Super-hard metal 'four times tougher than titanium'

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Caltech glassblower's retirement has scientists sighing

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Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK? (2012)

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Open-Source Recycling

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Apple's amusingly round reuse figures

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Islamic art inspires stretchy, switchable materials

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MIT Media Lab’s Journal of Design and Science Is a New Kind of Publication

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Riddle of cement’s structure is finally solved

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Most Radioactive Spot in New York: A Street Corner in Queens

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Dentists reveal new tooth decay treatment

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The Teflon Toxin

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Endurance experiment kills six consumer SSDs over 18 months

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Italian bank's almost risk-free cash-for-cheese loan

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Why YKK? The Japanese company behind the world’s best zippers

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iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed

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British rocket scientist says he's designed a better saucepan

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Lego-like bricks for full-sized buildings

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Have You Hugged a Concrete Pillar Today?

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How to Convert a Digital Watch to a Negative Display

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Synthetic Muscle Made of Fishing Line is 100 Times Stronger Than the Real Thing

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Fingers can detect nano-scale wrinkles even on a seemingly smooth surface

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A partial visual history of Sugru

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Marie Curie: Why her papers are still radioactive

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Bottle light inventor proud to be poor

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How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material of the Future

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The guy who made it so difficult to open your bag of potato chips

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Transparent Aluminum

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The Sugru story

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Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything

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Square redesign of the Coke bottle

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Scientists succeed in growing dolomite in the lab

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Experts revive ancient techniques to make concrete more sustainable

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Why 3M stopped making floppy disks in the '90s

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Transparent wood could soon find uses in smartphone screens, insulated windows

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How to clean chemistry glassware

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Wikihouse: Open-Source Houses

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Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England

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Chemists tie a trefoil knot using only 54 atoms

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Dangerous chemicals found in recycled plastics, making them unsafe for use

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Heinz’s sustainable ketchup cap

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The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)

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Project Habbakuk: Britain’s ice “bergship” aircraft carrier project (2017)

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Calendar types in watches

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Visiting the annual Braun collectors fair

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Scientific glassblower continues century-old campus tradition (2021)

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Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees

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Princeton engineers create new oyster-inspired cement 17X more crack-resistant

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Maglev titanium heart inside the chest of a live patient

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