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Clothes that charge your mobile phone?
A team of researchers at Nottingham Trent University set out to create a woven textile solar panel. They got to work and created a piece of fabric embedded with more than 1,000 solar cells to charge devices. We look at the potential and limitations of the technology.
12/07/2023
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The dream of building underwater cities
More than 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, according to the US Geological Survey. While theoretical concepts of underwater cities have been put forward to take advantage of this enormous space, to date no such large-scale city has been built.
05/07/2023
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The best kept secrets of the Forbidden City
The Forbidden City was home to China's emperors and their families for nearly 500 years. It was forbidden to enter the palace complex without permission, on pain of death. This is how one of China's most enigmatic masterpieces was built.
28/06/2023
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The genius of metal tainted by a corruption scandal
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel's illustrious career as a builder was marred by one of the biggest financial scandals of the 19th century. We look at how this genius of metalworking was affected by a project to build giant locks in the Panama Canal.
21/06/2023