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How Water Behaves Inside Carbon Nanotubes

Sunday, October 5th, 2008 - 18:21:27 - Anuradha Menon

A fresh discovery about the way water behaves inside carbon nanotubes could have implications in fields ranging from the function of ultra-tiny...

Gas From the Past Reveals Current Climate

Saturday, October 4th, 2008 - 10:10:46 - Anuradha Menon

Ice core and ocean deposit comparisons show complex links between carbon dioxide levels, ocean currents and climate; may help explain past, present...

Carbon Dioxide Captured Directly From Air

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008 - 09:36:37 - Ehud Rattner

University of Calgary climate change scientist David Keith and his team are working to efficiently capture the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide directly...

'Buckyballs' Can Accumulate in Living Tissue

Saturday, September 20th, 2008 - 12:08:40 - Anuradha Menon

Research at Purdue University suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in...

Super Strong Antimicrobial Coatings
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 - Roni Barr
Virginia A. Davis and Aleksandr Simonian from Auburn University research the role contaminated surfaces have in spreading...

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Old Forests Capture Plenty of Carbon

Thursday, September 11th, 2008 - 19:58:27 - Ehud Rattner

Old forests continue to accumulate carbon at a much greater rate than researchers had previously thought, making them more important as carbon sinks...

Bad Sign For Global Warming

Sunday, September 7th, 2008 - 14:25:16 - Ehud Rattner

Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth...

Graphene Pioneers Follow in Nobel Footsteps

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 - 12:26:47 - Anuradha Menon

Two physicists from The University of Manchester who discovered the world’s thinnest material have scooped a major award for their work. Professor...

Thawing Permafrost Will Boost Global Warming

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 - 15:24:26 - Ehud Rattner

A new assessment more than doubles previous estimates of the amount of carbon stored in permafrost, and indicates that carbon dioxide emissions from...

SuperThread - Strongest Carbon Nanotube Ever
Monday, August 25th, 2008 - Roni Barr
Yuntian Zhu, a Los Alamos scientist, has recently developed carbon-nanotube fibers (CNT) that may prove to be some of the...