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Rare white diamond up for auction in Hong Kong
Sep 10, 2020 (AFP)
The auction house has not given an official price estimate for the egg-shaped stone of exactly 102.39 carats, which has the highest color grade, D, for a white ...
Fossils suggest carbon's influence on climate could grow as planet warms
Sep 08, 2020 (UPI)
The findings, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, suggest that as the planet continues to warm, the climate will become more sensitive to ...
Study: Models underestimate amount of carbon absorbed by Earth's oceans
Sep 04, 2020 (UPI)
The movement of carbon between ocean and atmosphere is called carbon flux. New research suggests models designed to predict carbon flux have ignored the influen...
No limit yet for carbon nanotube fibers
Aug 18, 2020 (SPX)
The Rice lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Matteo Pasquali reported in Carbon it has developed its strongest and most conductive fibers yet, made of lon...
Global warming makes tropical soils leak CO2: study
Aug 12, 2020 (AFP)
Before humanity began loading the atmosphere with carbon pollution by burning fossil fuels, the input and outflow of CO2 into soil -- one key element in Earth's...
Physicists find misaligned carbon sheets yield unparalleled properties
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
Dr. Fan Zhang, assistant professor of physics in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at The University of Texas at Dallas, and physics doctoral stude...
Scientists record rapid carbon loss from warming peatlands
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
Peatlands currently cover around 3% of Earth's landmass and hold at least a third of global soil carbon - more carbon than is stored in the world's forests. Pea...
New soil models may ease atmospheric CO2, climate change
Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)
In an article published July 27 in Nature Geoscience, Cornell University's Johannes Lehmann and others wrote that scientists should develop new models that more...
Molecularly thin interface between polymers makes for efficient CO2 capture membrane
Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)
Technological solutions for the massive CO2 emissions prevention are therefore critically needed. Some technologies for CO2 capture, for instance, sorption by l...
White dwarfs reveal new insights into the origin of carbon in the universe
Jul 07, 2020 (SPX)
Approximately 90 percent of all stars end their lives as white dwarfs, very dense stellar remnants that gradually cool and dim over billions of years. With thei...
New insights into origin of carbon in the universe
Jul 07, 2020 (SPX)
Approximately 90 percent of all stars end their lives as white dwarfs, very dense stellar remnants that gradually cool and dim over billions of years. With thei...
Building a harder diamond
Jul 03, 2020 (SPX)
Diamonds, which are made entirely of carbon atoms arranged in a dense lattice, are famous for their unmatched hardness among known materials. However, carbon ca...
Liquefied carbon dioxide ready to sail
Jun 26, 2020 (SPX)
"We must speed up the process if we are to achieve our climate goals and collaboration is the best way forward. We expect to be able to transport two million to...
Both the famous Hope diamond and British Crown Jewel diamonds, may be super-deep
Jun 25, 2020 (SPX)
Presenting the work at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference, Dr Evan Smith of the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) confirmed: "We examined the first la...
Two-dimensional carbon networks
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
Graphdiyne is as flat and thin as graphene, which is the one-atomic-layer-thin version of graphite, but it has a higher porosity and adjustable electronic prope...
Liquid metals break down organic fuels into ultra-thin graphitic sheets
Jun 11, 2020 (SPX)
Graphitic materials, such as graphene, are ultra-thin sheets of carbon compounds that are sought after materials with great promises for battery storage, solar ...
Study shows diamonds aren't forever
Jun 08, 2020 (SPX)
While diamonds are commonly thought of as hard and stable, carbon from about 100 miles beneath the African plate is being brought to shallower levels where diam...
Australian researchers set record for carbon dioxide capture
Jun 04, 2020 (SPX)
Using a Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) nanocomposite that can be regenerated with remarkable speed and low energy cost, researchers have developed sponge-like ...
Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
Andreas Sichert from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology dedicated his PhD to the question how brown algae can be such a good sink of carbon: "Main...
World can likely capture and store enough carbon dioxide to meet climate targets
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) would be used alongside other interventions such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, and electrification of the transportat...
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