Trees trade carbon through their roots, using symbiotic fungi networks
A forest's trees capture carbon not only for themselves, but also engage in an active "trade" of sorts with their ...
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Taking a look into Mercury’s dark secrets
When the MESSENGER spacecraft found carbon rich material on Mercury, researchers were surprised and couldn't quite explain the source. Now, ...
Scientists find new phase of carbon at room-temp that’s harder than diamond
To make diamonds, the industry typically resorts to subjecting graphite to immense pressure and temperature, which makes production volumes low ...
Penta-graphene is stronger and better than graphene – we only need to make it, now
Chinese researchers ran simulations and found that a pentagon-containing version of graphene is theoretically stable. The 2D allotrope of carbon is made up ...
Washing soda could be used to capture CO2 fired by power plants
Lawrence Livermore scientists have devised tiny capsules made up of a highly permeable polymer shell and a sodium carbonate solution ...
Graphene: unlimited heat conductivity
It's official - graphene is the wonder material of the millennium. A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute ...
US navy synthesizes jet fuel solely out of seawater; costs $3-6 gallon
Flying a radio-controlled replica of the historic WWII P-51 Mustang red-tail aircraft—of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen—NRL ...
First computer made out of carbon nanotubes spells silicon demise in electronics
In an inspiring breakthrough, Stanford researchers have created the first ever working computer made entirely out of carbon nanotubes. The ...
Graphene transistors made using DNA assembly
To the right is a honeycomb of graphene atoms. To the left is a double strand ...
Carbon capture of the future might turn CO2 into construction materials
We all know that CO2 dumped in the atmosphere (consequences in the ocean, where the most carbon winds up actually ...
New anti-fragile plastic becomes stronger every time it’s stressed
Say hello to drop-proof smartphones and whole new generation of plastic products that will be far more durable and strong ...
Atom bombs help confirm the adult human brain does indeed produce new neurons
A long-time assumption in the medical world is that mature, differentiated neurons do not divide and that they're formed during the ...
New method traps CO2, rends clean hydrogen and might de-acidify world’s oceans
Hydrogen fuel has been eyeballed by scientists, as well as governments and energy corporations, for many years now as a ...
When laying the foundations for life, the Universe leaves little room for error
Light quark mass determines carbon and oxygen production and the viability of carbon-based life. Image credit: ...
Graphene thickness now easily identifiable
We've all been hearing about the miracles that carbon nanostructures will provide us in the near future for several years ...
First all-carbon solar cell promises to lower industry cost
Scientists at Stanford University have successfully devised the world's first solar cell made entirely out of carbon. This alternative to ...
Graphene sheets can repair themselves naturally
Graphene is one of the most phenomenal materials discovered in science. It's so thin, it can be molded into sheets ...
New record for human powered flight set by engineering students
A talented team of students from the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering has set a new record for the longest flight ...
Scientists strive to create inorganic life
A team or Scottish scientists are pushing material science on the extreme side by conducting research which, they hope, will ...
Defect in graphene opens up even more possibilities
Graphene is probably the 'substance of the century', and it will probably be for us what plastics were in the ...