How Is Global Carbon Cycling Affected by Fires? Fires affect the global carbon cycle by releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere, weakening the ability of forests and soils to absorb future carbon dioxide, and in some cases unlocking ancient carbon that has been stored for centuries or even millennia. Recent research shows this effect is becoming more serious as fires [...]

How Is Energy Used for AI? What Powers Training, Inference and Cooling Artificial intelligence may feel invisible on the user side, but behind every chatbot reply, image generation request, and coding suggestion is a very physical system powered by electricity. The biggest energy demands come from training large models, running them for users in real time, and cooling the dense [...]

EPA Grants Historic Commercial Clearance for Fractal Graphene, Unlocking Mass-Market US Manufacturing March 16, 2026 — HydroGraph Clean Power says it has cleared a major U.S. regulatory hurdle that could accelerate commercial adoption of its Fractal Graphene materials in American manufacturing. The company announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, Section 5(e) [...]

The Graphene Supersolid Breakthrough A supersolid is one of condensed-matter physics’ most counterintuitive ideas: a material that develops crystal-like spatial order while still retaining a phase-coherent, frictionless “superfluid” character. Recent work in double-layer graphene reports transport behavior consistent with an exciton superfluid that can transition into a low-temperature insulating phase suggestive of an ordered exciton solid—followed by a surprising recovery [...]

The Graphene ‘Holy Grail’: New Triplet Superconductor Discovery Could Finally Stabilize Quantum Computers Physicists have reported what many researchers are calling the long-sought “Holy Grail” of superconducting materials: a triplet superconductor capable of transmitting both electric charge and electron spin without resistance. The breakthrough, centered on a niobium-rhenium (NbRe) alloy integrated with graphene-based systems, could directly address the single biggest [...]

The Quantum Holy Grail: Confirming Triplet Superconductivity in Graphene for Stable Computing For more than a decade, graphene has been described as the “material of tomorrow.” As of February 2026, a series of breakthroughs suggests that tomorrow may be arriving faster than expected. Researchers across multiple institutions have reported experimental observations that could significantly impact quantum computing stability and green [...]