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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
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Why does the UK import 2.7 billion tonnes of vegetables a year?
Only 58 per cent of the vegetables eaten in the UK are grown here. Nottingham researchers redesigned a standard greenhouse to find out how much of that gap is down to design alone.
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Could seawater power the next generation of batteries?
A University of Houston team has pushed sodium-ion energy density up by more than 15 per cent, closing the gap with lithium using an element that can be extracted from seawater.
