The “Living Tattoo”: How Graphene Sensors Are Reshaping Agriculture and Wildfire Prevention Graphene, long described as a “miracle material,” is now moving beyond laboratories and into real-world ecosystems—directly onto plant leaves. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed ultra-thin graphene-based sensors that can be applied to living plants, offering a new way to monitor crop health and [...]

Which Industries Use Graphene? Real-World Applications Across Key Sectors Graphene is no longer limited to university labs and early-stage research projects. As production methods improve and commercial interest grows, this advanced carbon material is finding its way into a widening range of industries looking for lighter, stronger, more conductive, and more efficient materials. Known for its exceptional electrical conductivity, strength, [...]

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 [...]