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They are as tall as 500 meters.
Protecting the environment is easiest when it makes economic sense.
AM-III also works as a semiconductor, allowing it to transfer electrical current.
This technique is currently our key to the past.
Students could see a 50% decline in cognitive capacity by 2100 if CO2 emissions don't drop.
A business-as-usual scenario is no longer viable, according to the EU's Science Advisory Council.
Unecessary e-mails are responsible for as much CO2 as thousands of cars.
This is not good news.
Saving money and saving the environment are my two favorite things.
Yet another problem associated with pollution.
It might pave the way for molecular-sized transistors.
I'll admit it -- I did not expect this.
"We are incredibly excited about this first discovery on the road to realizing the goals of the Harnessing Plants Initiative," the authors say.
Please, tell me again how this has nothing to do with emissions.
It's not the best solution, but it could help.
Feasible or not, it's still an interesting idea.
Oh, how the waters have turned.
Pixar left this part out of Ice Age.
"Poetic justice" comes to mind.
The change can only come from civil society, researchers urge.
Soils can store a lot of carbon, but not if temperatures continue to rise.
Still no aliens. But this is definitely a cool find!
I like trees.
If it ain't broken, don't replace it with a powerplant.
But this doesn't mean we should stop focusing on forests -- on the contrary.
The universe is stickier than scientists used to think.
Ancient volcanism offers a glimpse into the future effects of climate change.
Fighting climate change is as easy as growing some food!
It's a damn shame.
Astronauts' waste will not be wasted.
A team of researchers forced bacteria to create carbon-silicon bonds, and their experiment showcases why life on our planet chose carbon.
Carbon nanotubes are one of the most promising materials humanity is looking into today -- problem is, they tend to break when mixed with anything else.
Instead, they now release around 8% of global emissions.
This molecule doesn't play by the rules.
Blinging hard!
Cutting down on meat could drastically reduce global warming.
Silly bacteria, carbon-based life is best life!
NASA is preparing for a potentially game-changing mission: intercepting an asteroid and bringing a sample back home.
Basically, it's because coal is done and gone.
That adds up to a lot of money.
A forest's trees capture carbon not only for themselves, but also engage in an active "trade" of sorts with their neighbors, a new study found. University of Basel botanists found that this process, conducted by symbiotic fungi in the forest's soil, takes place even among trees of different species.
When the MESSENGER spacecraft found carbon rich material on Mercury, researchers were surprised and couldn't quite explain the source. Now, they believe that the material may be the remnants of a primordial graphite crust, which would also explain why Mercury looks darker than expected.
To make diamonds, the industry typically resorts to subjecting graphite to immense pressure and temperature, which makes production volumes low and costly. This paradigm is about to change, since researchers at North Carolina State University found a new phase for carbon called Q-carbon, produced at ambient temperatures and pressure. This is surprisingly close to diamond in structure, with the added benefit of exhibiting a couple of unique properties.
Chinese researchers ran simulations and found that a pentagon-containing version of graphene is theoretically stable. The 2D allotrope of carbon is made up of atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a repeating pentagon pattern, while graphene is made up of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagon pattern, like a chicken wire. Graphene is the strongest material in the […]
Lawrence Livermore scientists have devised tiny capsules made up of a highly permeable polymer shell and a sodium carbonate solution that actively reacts with and absorbs carbon dioxide (CO2). Sodium carbonate is typically known as the main ingredient in washing soda, a common household item. The capsules are a lot cheaper and more environmentally friendly […]
It’s official – graphene is the wonder material of the millennium. A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz and the National Univ. of Singapore found that thermal conductivity of graphene diverges with the size of the samples. What’s the big deal? Well, the findings show that the thermal […]
Part of an extraordinary venture, researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) report they’ve synthesized hydrocarbon fuel solely from seawater by transforming the CO2 and H2 found in the water. To demonstrate they viability of the fuel, a replica of the legendary WWII P-51 was fitted by an off-the-shelf (OTS) and unmodified two-stroke internal combustion engine […]
In an inspiring breakthrough, Stanford researchers have created the first ever working computer made entirely out of carbon nanotubes. The technology is still very infant, as the computer operates on just one bit of information, and can only count to 32. Theoretically, however, it can be scaled up to perform billions of operations given enough memory. […]
As electronics become ever thinner, smaller and faster, scientists always need to think ahead and develop solutions to accommodate the computing needs of the future. For one, it becomes clearer with each passing day that silicon – the most used material in electronics – can’t be used anymore for tomorrow’s tech since we’re nearing its […]
We all know that CO2 dumped in the atmosphere (consequences in the ocean, where the most carbon winds up actually are even dire – i.e. ocean acidification) causes global warming through what’s commonly referred to as the greenhouse gas effect. Governments and various environmental panels have through out the years issued various policies meant on […]
