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5 3D printed houses you might live in on Mars

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NASA and partner Bradley University of Peoria, Illinois, have selected the top five teams the latest stage of the agency’s 3D-Printed Habitat Centennial Challenge competition, which looks for sustainable housing solutions for Earth and beyond. ...

Sense & Sensibility

NAWA pavilion is made from inflated steel arches

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The NAWA pavilion, designed by Oskar Zięta, is an ultra light construction made with FiDU, a technology that inflates steel elements with compressed air. FiDU is a technology invented by Zięta. It allows to distort ...

Beets and carrots might lead to stronger and greener concrete

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You’re not the only one who should eat your vegetables to become big and strong! Researchers from the EU-funded project B-SMART, led by Lancaster University (UK), found that the fibres of root vegetables like beets ...

Compîle project aims to clean up the ocean’s plastic soup

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Belgian design and consultancy firm CREAX developed a modular concept called Compîle, an artificial beach that passively cleans up plastic from the ocean. Every minute, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic ends up ...

Disposable cups made from mould-grown gourds

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Jun Aizaki, the founder of New York-based design studio Crème Design, and his team created HyO, a prototype disposable cup made from a gourd grown inside a 3D printed mould. Take-away coffee usually comes in ...

Sustainable

Raingear and swimwear made from recycled plastic bottles

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Alarmed by the prediction that plastic will outnumber fish in the ocean by weight in 2050, several companies have turned to recycling plastic bottles to make raingear and swimwear. When it comes to make plastic ...