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Beyond Gigafactories
They are the exciting new industrial story everyone wants to talk about. But it turns out they're only one small step in the giant leap towards a…
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How Batteries Work
What's actually going on inside your smartphone battery right now? The answer, it turns out, is: rather a lot.
May 23
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Britain's headlong slide from silicon supremacy to silicon irrelevance
The forgotten story of how an obscure English engineer very nearly invented the integrated circuit. And what happened next.
May 19
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Atoms for Copper
The totally implausible but totally true story about the plan to use nuclear weapons for mining. It very nearly happened!
May 7
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The Race to Win the Industrial Revolution
A tiny company near the clifftops at the most northerly point in mainland Britain might be about to play a small but important role in the biggest…
Apr 27
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How Coal Helped Avert an Environmental Disaster
Or: why technological solutions often turn into their own problems a century or so down the line
Apr 11
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The Salt Diaspora
We mostly only pay attention to the chemicals sector when something goes wrong. That's a mistake.
Mar 1
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It’s the Energy, Stupid
If you want to understand one of the main driving forces behind the economy, follow the tomatoes...
Feb 22
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Material World
Material World
Madonna was right. We're living in a Material World. Here's why that matters...

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Material World

Madonna was right. We're living in a Material World. Here's why that matters...

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