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Is there gold inside mobile phones and what's it got to do with organized crime?
Electronic devices such as mobile phones, computers, printers, photocopiers, televisions and calculators rely on sensitive low voltages and currents. Tiny amounts of water and air corrode many metals and interfere…
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What's waste got to do with organic chemistry and Queen Victoria's mauve dress?
Mauveine is a purple coloured dye. Before it was invented purple materials were very rare.
Roman emperors used to wear togas that had been dyed purple. But more than ten…
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Zen Buddhism and the art of building demolition
A Japanese company is using a children's game as the basis for a new way of demolishing high rise buildings.
Daruma-otoshi is a Japanese children's game, stacked with four coloured…
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