The whole apparatus is small enough to take outside the lab to locations with natural materials with interesting textures.

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Made up of timbers cut from a nearby sustainable wood along with natural and biodegradable materials, the home generates all its own power.

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The plastination process involves replacing the natural body fluids with synthetic materials such as silicone rubber, epoxy resin or polyester.

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It is fabulous when layered with similar shades and white, and natural materials such as wood, parchment, leather and metal.

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Once they can manipulate atoms--which combine to form molecules, the building blocks of our natural world--scientists can create new building blocks that produce new materials with the exact properties they desire: smaller, stronger, tougher, lighter and more resilient than what has come before.

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Wright's Prairie Homes contrasted the grand edifices of the Chicago School with their modest low-slung horizon lines, flat roofs, overhanging eaves, unadorned open spaces and natural materials that mirrored the Midwestern landscape.

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Securing the prodigious raw materials, natural resources, and energy reserves that it needs to do so leaves it with little choice but to scour the world and negotiate agreements wherever it can.

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