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.
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