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ScienceDaily: Top Science News

ScienceDaily: Top Science News


Even with defects, graphene is strongest material in the world

Posted: 31 May 2013 08:47 AM PDT

Engineering researchers demonstrate that graphene, even if stitched together from many small crystalline grains, is almost as strong as graphene in its perfect crystalline form. This resolves a contradiction between theoretical simulations, which predicted grain boundaries can be strong, and earlier experiments, which indicated they were much weaker than the perfect lattice.

Elevated carbon dioxide making arid regions greener

Posted: 31 May 2013 07:54 AM PDT

Scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observed since the early 1980s in satellite data, springs at least in part from the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. Now, a study of arid regions around the globe finds that a carbon dioxide "fertilization effect" has, indeed, caused a gradual greening from 1982 to 2010.

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