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As the government pushes to make affordable housing a reality, a plan introduced 16 years ago to bring down the cost of construction lies neglected. The Government in 2003 introduced the interlocking ...

A Chinese research team has developed a "lunar brick-making machine" that can produce bricks from moon soil, bringing the sci-fi vision of "building houses on the moon with local materials" closer to ...

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