The news came through my Facebook feed as if it was no big deal. But it was. The last Luby’s in town had abruptly closed.

The Blackwing Palomino pencil had been a favorite of writer John Steinbeck, composer John Williams, Looney Toons animator ...

Scientists are investigating how structures made from several layers of graphene stack up in terms of their fundamental physics and their potential as reconfigurable semiconductors for advanced ...

Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, a physicist who studies 2D materials at the University of California, Irvine, likens the ...

You may recognize graphite as the "lead" in a pencil, but besides helping you take notes or fill in countless bubbles on exam answer sheets, it is helping scientists grapple with the secrets of ...

In an article published in the journal Nature on Thursday, the researchers said that compared to their bulkier counterparts, ...

But wouldn’t it be nice if the graphite tip of a pencil could be turned into diamond? After all, they are both composed entirely of carbon atoms. The main difference between pencil lead and the ...

Researchers have revealed new insights into rhombohedral stacking in graphene, reporting on how it behaves as a semiconductor ...

Rhombohedral pentalayer graphene is essentially a special form of pencil lead. Pencil lead, or graphite, is composed of graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons resembling a ...