The Carbon Catalogue
RADIOISOTOPES
A Canadian database is emerging as the planet’s biggest repository of radiocarbon dates. Its overseer dreams of a single global database that will revolutionize archaeology.
Read More >>Reinventing the Wheel
MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Daan Maijer points to the wheel mounted behind glass outside his University of British Columbia office and tells me why, exactly, it looks the way it does. All those cutouts...
Read More >>Big oil cleans up its act
PETROCHEMISTRY
From the air, the landscape surrounding Fort McMurray in northeastern Alberta is a patchwork of boreal green stitched...
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