chemistry
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Chemists Used Buckyballs to Squeeze a Noble Gas Into One Dimension
On my commute to work today, I had the misfortune of being crammed into a narrow tube underground. But it could have been worse: I could’ve been squished into a single dimension. That’s what recently happened to some krypton atoms in an Ulm University chemistry lab. Using transmission electron microscopy (or TEM), a team managed…
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ExxonMobil Dips Its Oily Toe Into Lithium Mining
The fossil fuel giant is joining the race to mine lithium for the clean energy revolution.
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NASA’s TEMPO Mission Could Bring You Hyper-Local Pollution Alerts
A soon-to-launch NASA mission is set to offer more data on North America’s air quality than researchers and public health programs have ever had available before. A new monitoring instrument hosted on a commercial satellite will offer continent-wide, hourly updates on air pollution, at about a four square mile resolution, according to the space agency…
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How to Make Carbon Capture Way More Efficient
Scientists agree that we’re going to need to build machines to suck carbon from the sky to stave off the worst impacts of climate change — but there are a lot of challenges for this new industry in the coming decades, including figuring out how to make the technology more effective. A discovery from a…