The Biggest Threat to Humanity? Black Goo

There is a question, the answer to which could change the world. It is a simple question. The question is this: What the hell happened to graphene? It got big, oh, 10-ish years ago, around the time when two University of Manchester researchers won the Nobel Prize for "discovering" it. That's in scare quotes because all they really did, in a now famous example of serendipity in the sciences, was peel a piece of literal sticky tape off graphite--the stuff in literal pencils--and notice, basically by accident, that the residual flakes comprised a single layer of carbon atoms.