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A sample of cement made from the mineral olivine, which can also help sequester carbon during production.

Environment

Carbon-negative cement can be made with a mineral that helps catch CO2

A process to dissolve the mineral olivine in acid could provide a plentiful, energy-efficient material for carbon-negative cement

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Hyperelastic gel is one of the stretchiest materials known to science

Physics

Hyperelastic gel is one of the stretchiest materials known to science

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Chemistry

Old milk can be used to extract gold and other metals from e-waste

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Chemistry

Layer of graphene could help protect statues and paintings from damage

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Technology

Toxic mud from aluminium production can be used to make greener steel

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Fire Ants Floating in Flood Water

Life

Fire ants form rafts that have weird properties when stretched

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Technology

AI comes up with battery design that uses 70 per cent less lithium

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Falling diamonds on black background

Space

It might rain diamonds on more than 1900 exoplanets across the galaxy

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Chemistry

Notoriously complex material called 'plumber's nightmare' created

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This carbon nitride is nearly as hard as diamond

Chemistry

Material made of carbon and nitrogen is nearly as hard as diamond

Crushing carbon and nitrogen under immense pressure and heat creates the second-hardest known material after diamond

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Health

Stretchy electrodes shrink when wet to fit snugly around organs

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Technology

Cooling system could replace air con and drastically cut energy use

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Physics

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts ‘red matter’ study

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Technology

Hollow nanoparticles linked by DNA make unusually strong materials

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