Paul Hawken’s survey of carbon science is extensive, sound and frequently fascinating, a fine example of popular science ...

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 ...

Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, made from the compressed remains of ancient plants and plankton — has ...

Scientists have discovered “berkelocene,” the first organometallic molecule to be characterized containing the heavy element ...

Researchers have synthesised a triple bond between carbon and boron for the first time. This discovery could help chemists ...

Scientists in Germany have achieved something never seen before: creating a stable boron-carbon triple bond. While triple bonds exist between many element pairs, boron and carbon had stubbornly ...

Carbon, a chemical element, is found in all organic matter on Earth, from the plants and animals alive today to fossil fuels buried underground. It’s a key building block in the foods we eat, ...

Carbon, with its myriad compounds, is the backbone of life and the central element of organic chemistry. The number of bonds a carbon atom forms with other elements in a compound determines its ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...