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5 Secrets Your Contractor Doesn’t Want You to Know

You think of your general contractor as an ally and partner — but he’s a primarily a businessman who may not reveal all his secrets.

Applied Materials Steers Solo Course on Chip Tools

Applied Materials bets its production systems to be unveiled Monday will grab market share from rival sellers of chip-making gear.

Salt boosts creation of 2-D materials

A dash of salt can simplify the creation of two-dimensional materials, and thanks to Rice University scientists, the reason is becoming clear.Boris Yakobson, a Rice professor of materials scienc ...

Boosting the science of creating new materials

A four-year, $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will help a Central Michigan University-led team fix a long-standing problem in materials science.

I Really Want to Love His Dark Materials, But It's Getting Harder

There are things His Dark Materials is doing right; the performances are great, the cinematography is top-notch, and Philip Pullman’s words are cleverly integrated into the script. But its inability to capture one of the franchise’s most-important tenets, the connection between humans and daemons, has become too big of a problem to ignore—making the final confrontation at Bolvangar ring hollow instead of revelatory.

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Newly-Developed Material Has Extremely Low Thermal Conductivity

The new superlattice material, Bi4O4SeCl2, developed by a team of scientists from the United Kingdom and France, combines two different arrangements of atoms that were each found to slow down the speed at which heat moves through the structure of a solid.

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These Ingenious Buildings Were All Built Using Recycled Materials

Sometimes choosing to limit yourself to recycled materials can make your building more interesting. These buildings are made from a wide range of reclaimed materials, from concrete pipes and discarded doors to plastic bottles and bags.

Recycling old batteries into solar cells

This could be a classic win-win solution: A system proposed by researchers at MIT recycles materials from discarded car batteries—a potential source of lead pollution—into new, long-lasting solar panels that provide emissions-free power.

What Materials Are Included?

Find out what materials get included with regards to C&D waste recycling. You may be surprised at how many materials are considered to be recyclable!