A spell of severe global warming 55 million years ago was triggered by not one but two injections of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere—and the rate of increase suggests that the ancient warming event may hold important lessons for what to expect with today’s climate change. Image: NASA Earth Observatory
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Tuning thin carbon sheets to either insulate or conduct means it will soon be possible to build...
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Scientists in Greece have met a US Department of Energy challenge to create materials capable of...
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The mass of gold atoms has been calculated using a tiny vibrating tube of carbon – the...
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The extraordinary properties of the carbon supermaterial graphene are turning out to be more...
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Blink and you might miss it. Researchers have captured the rapid formation of buckyballs – carbon spheres just 1 nanometre in diameter – on film for the first time. Image: St Stev
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