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Almanac: The invention of carbon paper

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac, October 7, 1806, 212 years ago today … a date for an achievement that was anything but singular. For that was the day carbon paper was patented by the …
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This is ‘nanowood,’ an invention that could reduce humanity’s carbon footprint

Scientists have designed a heat-insulating material made from wood that is both light and strong and made entirely from tiny, stripped-down wood fibers. The so-called nanowood, described in the journal Science Advances, could one day be used to make more …
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