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September 16, 2016

Asphalt-based carbon-capture material advances
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 15, 2016
A Rice University laboratory has improved its method to turn plain asphalt into a porous material that can capture greenhouse gases from natural gas. In research detailed this month in Advanced Energy Materials, Rice researchers showed that a new form of the material can sequester 154 percent of its weight in carbon dioxide at high pressures that are common at gas wellheads. Raw natural gas typically contains between 2 and 10 percent carbon dioxide and other impurities, which must be removed befor ... read more

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				Setting a Safe Course for Gene Editing Research A new DARPA program could help unlock the potential of advanced gene editing technologies by developing a set of tools to address potential risks of this rapidly advancing field. The Safe Genes prog ... more		Eastern forests use up nitrogen in soil during earlier, greener springs A warming climate is causing earlier springs and later autumns in eastern forests of the United States, lengthening the growing season for trees and potentially changing how forests function. Scient ... more

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				Chemistry says Moon is proto-Earth's mantle, relocated Measurements of an element in Earth and Moon rocks have just disproved the leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon. Tiny differences in the segregation of the isotopes of potassium between the ... more		After Strong El Nino Winter, NASA Model Sees Return to Normal Not too hot, not too cold - instead, water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean should be just around normal for the rest of 2016, according to forecasts from the Global Modeling and Assimil ... more

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