This is carbon. And of all chemical elements in the Universe, it’s one of the most plentiful. So what would happen if all of it suddenly disappeared for five seconds? How would this little change ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look ...

Lovers and haters of this technology are both wrong. Carbon capture is necessary but not sufficient to rebalance our planet’s ...

Carbon forms bonds with many other elements and it can bond with up to ... Their popularity in cutting-edge chemical research seems to be waning. Perhaps it is fair to say that their most enduring ...

A study led by researchers at the United States Geological Survey estimated that between 5 to 19 million tons of lithium ...

A team of researchers led by RMIT University have released a study on 'low carbon ammonia' made with liquid metal catalysts.

Nature is full of interconnected loops. Water travels in a never-ending cycle, going from the ground to the sky and back ...

At a research lab in the city of Hefei, in southeastern China’s Anhui province, a team of scientists has managed to create ...

Giant fans are sucking carbon out of the air. There are plans to ‘re-ice’ the Arctic and use aerosols to bounce sunlight away ...

Scientists have set up and observed a single electron bond between two carbon molecules. A traditional “single bond” is ...

The basis of all life on Earth is photosynthesis. So, what happens if it is disrupted? Today, advanced measurement tools can reveal how climate change is affecting plants' ability to process the ...