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Can plastic waste really replace bricks?
Recycled-plastic bricks are usually tested in only one direction. An Indonesian team tested them both ways, and the strength did not hold up the way the headline figure suggests.
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Could your body heat soon charge your devices?
A team at the University of Surrey has built a layered metal-polymer material that turns waste heat into electricity, and unlike the materials this field has relied on, it is