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Scientists Create Clear, Glasslike Material Out of Wood

It’s a lucrative concept that has drawn the attention of researchers across the globe in recent years.

But thanks to a new generation of futuristic building materials, those materials could be poised for a significant upgrade. A team of researchers at the USDA and several research institutions say they’ve developed “transparent wood,” a glass-like material made almost entirely out of trees that they claim is stronger, safer, more cost efficient and more thermally efficient than glass.

Kicking Glass

It’s a lucrative concept that has drawn the attention of multiple research teams across the globe, all working on similar concepts.

Archaeologists Just Unveiled a Fully Intact Mummy That’s Been Sealed For 2,500 Years

O,.o.

Archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found 59 well-preserved and sealed wooden coffins over recent weeks that were buried more than 2,500 years ago.

Opening one of the ornately decorated sarcophagi before assembled media, the team revealed mummified remains wrapped in burial cloth that bore hieroglyphic inscriptions in bright colours.

The dramatic find was unearthed south of Cairo in the sprawling burial ground of Saqqara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The Metaverse is coming

What seems certain is that sophisticated 3D digital worlds will appear on ever more of the screens of successive generations of devices that people already use every day. As activities, particularly interactions between people, in virtual realities can generate practical and aesthetic outcomes that have moral consequences and personal meanings, the idea that the “real” world is limited to that which is physically present nearby will seem increasingly bizarre. What, after all, is real, anyway?

But people need to be kept at the centre of it.

Phytomining — Mining With Trees — Could Save Our Planet

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about new advances in phytomining — the potential future of mining on our planet — by using plants and trees to do the hard work for us.
Image Credit: Anthony van der Ent
Papers:
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.149…C%202013).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1360138598012837
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/77625923.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128031582000151
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/446064.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128031582000151
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341665760_Use_and_v…ic_regions
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329579782_The_first_tropical_’metal_farm’_Some_perspectives_from_field_and_pot_experiments

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