If you need “a new word processor” for the upcoming semester, consider this high-tech—but still low-cost—spin on that old No. 2 yellow: the Sharpie Liquid Pencil. Its liquefied graphite slides onto ...

Molten carbon can form into either diamond or graphite. A new study shows how graphite can sometimes form even under conditions that should lead to diamond. (Getty Images) The graphite found in your ...

Synthesized graphene can be made by mixing water, detergents, and solvents with graphite powder at ambient temperature and atmospheric pressure. This method was developed by Jonathan N. Coleman, a ...

When Scripto, Inc. and Parker Pen Co. each announced that they had a new kind of pencil that writes with liquid graphite and never has to be sharpened (TIME, Feb. 7), everyone in the industry expected ...