Researchers in the Yaghi labs have developed porous materials that can soak up 80 times their volume of carbon dioxide, offering the tantalizing possibility that the greenhouse gas could be cheaply scrubbed from power-plant smokestacks. The results published in Science Magazine are garnering the attention of the global science and tech community.
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