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A company in Kyoto found thousands of rare ceramic coins made during metal shortages ... a dental equipment manufacturer, found 15 wooden boxes filled with small pottery discs in a warehouse ...

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Nov. 6 (UPI) --The first wood-panel satellite is on a SpaceX flight to the International Space Station, where it will test the durability of wood in space. Japanese researchers built a small ...

This small (10 cm 3) satellite is crafted from honoki magnolia wood and could offer a cleaner ... “Satellites that are not made of metal should become mainstream,” Takao Doi said at a press ...

Unique among the myriad of items the mission carried is the first satellite made from wood, a palm-sized cube called the LignoStat. Developed by Kyoto University researchers and the Japanese ...

United Passions, a 2014 sports drama, has the dubious distinction of being the biggest box office bomb in cinema ... The film was 90% funded by FIFA. Made on a $29-32 million budget, United ...

"Early 1900s airplanes were made of wood," said Kyoto University forest science professor Koji Murata. "A wooden satellite should be feasible, too." Wood is more durable in space than on Earth ...

Scientists in Japan constructed the first satellite made of wood by blending ... The satellite, a wooden cube with four-inch-wide panels and small plastic and silicon parts, will be sent to ...