No one refilling a water glass or delivering plates.
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Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2026
These marks are common and hard to avoid—McAllister says they can be caused by anything from a water glass without a coaster to a warm pizza box that’s just been delivered.
As with the Apollo spacecraft, Orion’s heat shield is made principally of a material known as Avcoat, a combination of epoxy resin and silica fibers, designed to absorb the fires of reentry and slowly burn off, or ablate, carrying the reentry heat away from the capsule and crew.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
11 Apr. 2026
Scientists in Switzerland have recently come up with a recyclable epoxy resin that could greatly slash plastic production from aircrafts, cars and wind turbines which until now were almost impossible to reuse.
The pioneering project at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design is working to create environmentally friendly alternatives to concrete and epoxy while also reducing the waste going into landfills.
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Marcella Baietto,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
With laser guidance, contractors applied epoxy to joint the blocks end-on.
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Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
16 May 2026
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