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The green transition will fail without more engineers
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Extremely thin lightweight lenses take amazing images of the universe
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City in Sierra Leone covers buildings in mirrors to fight extreme heat
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Inside the huge London super sewer designed to fight river pollution
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Underwater pendulums could calm waves and reduce coastal erosion
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Origami glass technique produces hard-to-make shapes
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