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A former SpaceX engineer left rockets to reinvent home construction and founded a startup that manufactures wall panels from a grass that grows about 15 centimeters per day.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 14/06/2026 at 00:50

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He transformed an abandoned plastic water tank into an underground house in the “hobbit hole” style, using only repurposed pallet wood, without heavy machinery or expensive labor.

Valdemar Medeiros 14/06/2026 at 00:35

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How much does it cost to install gutters in a house in 2026? See the average costs of materials, labor, and the most common extra expenses that may arise during installation.

Ruth Rodrigues 14/06/2026 at 00:11

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A prefabricated wooden house with 70 m², three bedrooms, and a veranda costs the same as a new car in Brazil, around R$ 140,000, or 24,000 euros, and is for sale in Spain.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 13/06/2026 at 22:29

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Four 755-meter cables will no longer cut through the sky of Sugarloaf Mountain: the canceled zipline project promised to transform the landmark into an attraction worth over R$ 100 million and ended before getting off the ground.

Valdemar Medeiros 13/06/2026 at 22:25

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Man builds a 100 m² house with 11,000 PET bottles in Minas Gerais and moves people by revealing that his father collected almost all the material around the city before it became common trash.

Noel Budeguer 13/06/2026 at 19:08

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50-meter tunnel below the seabed could retire old ferries in the Shetland Islands: £400 million project promises to connect communities, reduce isolation, and transform the future of transportation in Scotland

Carla Teles 13/06/2026 at 18:53

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Brazil delivers a giant dam worth R$ 365.7 million in Rio Grande do Sul, capable of forming an artificial lake with 138 million m³ of water, equivalent to 55,300 Olympic swimming pools and an area larger than 2,500 football fields.

Ana Alice 13/06/2026 at 16:57

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Most people use a tape measure their whole lives without ever understanding why some numbers are painted red; the explanation lies in a 16-inch spacing that is invaluable for those who work with walls and wood.

Bruno Teles 13/06/2026 at 11:41

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How much does it cost to build a 60 m² house? A real construction project in Minas Gerais revealed a cost of R$ 156,570, which was below the CUB estimate and showed how a compact project with 2 bedrooms can be affordable.

Carla Teles 13/06/2026 at 10:11

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Dissatisfied with seeing the construction industry rely on increasingly expensive and polluting materials, students from Paraná used orange peel in mortar, caught attention in an innovation challenge, and can now turn the project into a product with tests at UTFPR.

Geovane Souza 13/06/2026 at 09:38

Construction

How to properly build a brick wall, starting with measuring the area, choosing materials, preparing the mortar, aligning with nylon string, and finishing with lime, putty, and paint.

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 13/06/2026 at 00:26

Construction

A former SpaceX engineer left rockets to reinvent home construction and founded a startup that manufactures wall panels from a grass that grows about 15 centimeters per day.

He transformed an abandoned plastic water tank into an underground house in the “hobbit hole” style, using only repurposed pallet wood, without heavy machinery or expensive labor.

How much does it cost to install gutters in a house in 2026? See the average costs of materials, labor, and the most common extra expenses that may arise during installation.

A prefabricated wooden house with 70 m², three bedrooms, and a veranda costs the same as a new car in Brazil, around R$ 140,000, or 24,000 euros, and is for sale in Spain.

Four 755-meter cables will no longer cut through the sky of Sugarloaf Mountain: the canceled zipline project promised to transform the landmark into an attraction worth over R$ 100 million and ended before getting off the ground.

Man builds a 100 m² house with 11,000 PET bottles in Minas Gerais and moves people by revealing that his father collected almost all the material around the city before it became common trash.

50-meter tunnel below the seabed could retire old ferries in the Shetland Islands: £400 million project promises to connect communities, reduce isolation, and transform the future of transportation in Scotland

Brazil delivers a giant dam worth R$ 365.7 million in Rio Grande do Sul, capable of forming an artificial lake with 138 million m³ of water, equivalent to 55,300 Olympic swimming pools and an area larger than 2,500 football fields.

Most people use a tape measure their whole lives without ever understanding why some numbers are painted red; the explanation lies in a 16-inch spacing that is invaluable for those who work with walls and wood.

How much does it cost to build a 60 m² house? A real construction project in Minas Gerais revealed a cost of R$ 156,570, which was below the CUB estimate and showed how a compact project with 2 bedrooms can be affordable.

Dissatisfied with seeing the construction industry rely on increasingly expensive and polluting materials, students from Paraná used orange peel in mortar, caught attention in an innovation challenge, and can now turn the project into a product with tests at UTFPR.

How to properly build a brick wall, starting with measuring the area, choosing materials, preparing the mortar, aligning with nylon string, and finishing with lime, putty, and paint.

Engineers want to carve through Africa with a giant canal to bring water from the world’s second-largest river to a dying lake on the edge of the Sahara Desert that has already lost 90% of its water.

A giant brown band visible from space, approximately 8,850 kilometers long, connected Africa to America in the Atlantic Ocean, and satellites revealed that it is neither land nor pollution, but the largest accumulation of seaweed in the world, which broke records in 2025.

Brazil filled the Northeast with wind turbines but now faces the side effect of 705 giant blades reaching the end of their lifespan by 2032 just in Rio Grande do Norte, while the world projects 43 million tons of waste by 2050.

Instead of burning or burying old tires, an American city is transforming about 2,000 of them into the street itself, paving its first sections with a quieter and more durable rubber asphalt.

In just one cast, fishermen are surprised to capture 14,096 mullets in Bombinhas and close a historic season with 58,000 fish; scene recorded in the Santa Catarina paradise marks the last day of the 2026 season.

India approved the country’s first submerged road-rail tunnel, 15.8 kilometers dug under the bed of the Brahmaputra River.

10 giant tortoises are reintroduced and, in just 6 months, trigger changes that lead scientists to investigate a phenomenon absent for 180 years; the numbers recorded on the island impress researchers from around the world.