How China's ‘chemical trap’ extracts uranium from seawater   Chinese researchers have developed a new material capable of extracting uranium from seawater at more than eight times the target rate previously set by the US department of energy, SCMP reported. This marks a potential advancement in the global effort to tap the oceans as a vast source of nuclear fuel.The team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Qingdao recovered up to 50.4mg of uranium per gram of the material from natural seawater samples, compared with the US benchmark of 6mg per gram.The material, known as PhosCage, is a sponge-like…