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The “BioHome3D,” a 3D-printed 600-square-foot single-family house
University of Maine, Advanced Structures and Composites Center
‘When can I have one?’: The world’s largest 3D printer is building cozy homes from wood
The University of Maine is swapping concrete for wood materials to print houses using what it calls the largest polymer 3D printer in the world.

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A rare Roman dodecahedron was found in Lincolnshire, England last summer and is set to go on display in the Lincoln Museum in Lincoln, England.
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Kim Kardashian at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images)
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Inside ‘Biba:’ The iconic London store where Anna Wintour was a shop girl
Mar 19, 2024
Shigeichi Negishi poses for a picture in 2018.
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Inventor of first karaoke machine, Shigeichi Negishi, dies aged 100
Mar 19, 2024
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George Michael commemorated with coins from UK’s Royal Mint
Feb 26, 2024
Taylor Swift pictured arriving for the Golden Globe Awards in January.
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One of London’s top museums wants to hire a Taylor Swift superfan
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Is it time to revolutionize the toilet?
Tate & Lyle senior vice-president of sugars, Gerald Mason, holds a jar of golden syrup at the company's refinery in east London, Britain October 10, 2016.
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World’s oldest unchanged brand changes logo for the first time in over 140 years
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Are these the most beautiful coffee shops in the world?
Richard Plaud using 706,900 matchsticks to build the structure.
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Joy for maker of tallest matchstick Eiffel Tower as Guinness World Records reverses initial rejection
Paris 2024 Olympics Medal Preview - Chaumet, Paris, France - February 1, 2024 A Paris 2024 Olympic Games gold medal is seen on display at Chaumet jewellery REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
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Paris 2024 Olympic medals to feature iron from the Eiffel Tower

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Designer and architect Ahmad Alkattan created these structures to provide shade and shelter for humans and pigeons alike. They were among more than 30 designs for installations submitted to Dubai Design Week that have been built in the city's Design District.
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A space for humans and pigeons to share is among the highlights of Dubai Design Week
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People are making furniture out of cardboard. And it looks like this
French luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz plays a ukulele made using mycelium in her studio on June 21, 2023, in Providence, Rhode Island. Leave mushroom spores in a mold for a couple weeks and they'll bloom into a puffy material akin to brie, says Rosenkrantz, a sustainability-minded guitar-maker innovating with bio-materials. Once her mycelium, the root-like structure of fungus that produces mushrooms, mimics the rind of a soft-ripened cheese Rosenkrantz dehydrates it into a lightweight, biodegradable building material -- in this case, a guitar-body. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Sound of the underground: This guitar maker finds music in mushrooms
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