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Biden’s Graphite Headscratcher
The Biden administration’s plans to boost manufacturing of electric vehicles may face a big bump in the road — and that bump is made of graphite. Both E&E News and Marketplace reported this week on how the coming electric vehicle revolution will supercharge the demand for the mineral.
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Weird Hexagonal Diamonds Came From an Asteroid-Dwarf Planet Smashup
New research indicates that a rare form of diamond may originate in the burbling cores of distant worlds, arriving on Earth thanks to violent cosmic collisions.
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Seaweed May Not Be a Silver Bullet for Carbon Storage After All
Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of hope placed in seaweed as a way to tackle climate change. The excitement stemmed from studies suggesting seaweed could be scaled up to capture and store huge quantities of carbon dioxide, taking advantage of rapid growth rates, large areas, and long-term storage in the deep…
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To Save Forests, Researchers Are Hooking Trees Up To Twitter
In July 2018, a century-old red oak went live on Twitter. The account @awitnesstree, tweeting from the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, introduces itself in its bio: Witnessing life as a tree in a changing environment for more than a century. Views are my own – sort of (data translated by scientists and communicators at…