Nepal says that the rebels are destroying water systems, telecoms equipment and other useful materials.
And this group of organisms have already produced a lot of antibiotics but we've barely begun to look at whether they've got useful materials in them.
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Unfortunately, these chains come in several varieties, and making useful materials from them requires that the amount of each variety in the mixture be controlled, as the properties of the resulting material depend on the proportions of its components.
Linda Barton set up the website Guernsey Salvage to try to stop useful building materials going to landfill.
Be polite and honest in discharging function, especially in obtaining documents, photographs and other informative materials useful for news reports.
Such precise control over the material's structure makes possible materials with useful but unusual properties.
Despite that being the global centre of excellence in terms of a workforce with the right knowledge, despite there being an entirely useful source of raw materials locally.
At Gadget Camp, sponsored in part by a foundation affiliated with the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, girls learned how to make a lamp, a candy dispenser, and other useful items out of various materials including wood, metal, fiberglass and PVC pipe.
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The idea of using a magnetic field as a solar sail was first suggested a few years ago, but it soon became apparent that creating a field strong enough to be useful would require exotic superconducting materials that, unfortunately, do not exist.
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It is quite possible that technologies being developed for other purposes (such as lasers, which are useful for all sorts of advanced materials processing) will make the process cheaper and easier still.
McNamara feels the network will serve as a platform for the exchange of open-source components, a way to "process" those raw materials into something that is useful and available to the entire community.
Build networks of relevant friends and offer useful content to them as well as some promotional materials sprinkled in.
Belcher now runs evolution on fast-forward but under different conditions, trying to make new materials as amazing as an abalone shell that are more useful for humans.
Advancements in materials and speed will be made simultaneously and additive manufacturing will become a brilliantly useful industrial tool.
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