MATERIEL CHANGE

'Super-material' graphene gets government backing | Science | The Guardian

UK will commercialise material with technological applications ranging from telecommunications and electronics to energy production and distribution.

The atom-thick honeycomb lattice of carbon conducts electricity a million times better than copper, is transparent and is stronger and more stretchable than other conductors.

 

THE QUICKENING

Ice sheet warming faster than thought: study

 

A study of temperature records over more than half a century shows the west Antarctic ice sheet is warming nearly twice as quickly as previously thought.

A re-analysis of temperature records from 1958 to 2010 revealed an increase of 2.4 degrees Celsius over the period, three times the average global rise.

OUR ALIEN MASTERS

Libor scandal grows as the fathers of two mass murderers were to testify

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