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Building new drugs just got easier

New boron nanomaterial may be possible

Trees grow faster and store more carbon as they age

Turning plastic bags into high-tech materials

Stanford scientists use DNA to assemble a transistor from graphene

Physicists Discover Theoretical Possibility of Large, Hollow Magnetic Cage Molecules

Study questions nature’s ability to ‘self-correct’ climate change

Grocery delivery service is greener than driving to the store

Confirming carbon’s climate effects, and how it helped end the last ice age

First plants caused ice ages

Berkeley scientists highlight challenges of meeting state energy goals by 2050

California is showing the way for the rest of the nation in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, having set an ambitious goal to reduce these emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by the year 2050. Given that energy demand is projected …

Jewel-toned organic phosphorescent crystals: A new class of light-emitting material

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Pure organic compounds that glow in jewel tones could potentially lead to cheaper, more efficient and flexible display screens, among other applications.
University of Michigan researcher Jinsang Kim and his colleagues ha…