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Flexible, Transparent Nanotube-Based Loudspeakers
Monday, December 15th, 2008 - Anuradha Menon
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Beijing University have recently developed a thin film based on carbon nanotubes...

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Carbon Dioxide Found on Extrasolar Planet

Thursday, December 11th, 2008 - 10:29:18 - Anuradha Menon

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important...

Carbon Dioxide Helped Ancient Earth

Sunday, December 7th, 2008 - 10:13:14 - Ehud Rattner

The planet’s present day greenhouse scourge, carbon dioxide, may have played a vital role in helping ancient Earth to escape from complete...

Carbon Discovered on Distant Planet

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 - 10:00:27 - Ehud Rattner

Carbon dioxide, one of the telltale signs that a planet may be able to support life, has been spotted in the atmosphere of a gas giant orbiting a...

Big Noise from Little Tubes

Monday, November 17th, 2008 - 15:58:40 - Ehud Rattner

Last year brought news of Lilliputian radios made from whiskerlike carbon nanotubes. Now, researchers in China have added ultrathin loudspeakers to...

Mysterious Microbe Found in the Open Ocean

Saturday, November 15th, 2008 - 14:38:32 - Anuradha Menon

A new microorganism discovered in the open ocean may force scientists to rethink their understanding of how carbon and nitrogen cycle through ocean...

Dried Mushrooms to Rescue Climate Change?

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 - 12:43:20 - Anuradha Menon

The fight against climate warming has an unexpected ally: mushrooms growing in dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and other...

Carbon Nano-Tube Color A4 E-Paper
Monday, October 27th, 2008 - Anuradha Menon
Samsung Electronics and Unidym have demonstrated the world’s first carbon nanotube-based color active matrix electrophoretic...

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Climate Change Seeps into the Sea

Saturday, October 25th, 2008 - 14:15:38 - Anuradha Menon

Good news has turned out to be bad. The ocean has helped slow global warming by absorbing much of the excess heat and heat-trapping carbon dioxide...