Researchers have found a way to use solar energy to power a key chemical reaction that drives many manufacturing industries. This new method can significantly reduce the energy required to run these ...

Photocatalysis promises an efficient conversion of abundant solar energy into usable chemical energy. Polyheptazine imides ...

Presenting their provisional findings at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 in Glasgow, the scientists say an additional 2–10 ...

Planar tetracoordinate carbon species subvert the long‐standing paradigm of tetrahedral carbon geometry, demonstrating that a carbon atom can be stabilised in a planar configuration with four ...

Scientists know iron oxide minerals store large amounts of carbon in soils, but lack a detailed, quantitative understanding of the specific chemical mechanisms that allow them to bind such a wide ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

The synthetic biology start-up Again has raised $43 million in a series A funding round led by GV, formerly Google Ventures. Again is commercializing a fermentation process that uses genetically ...

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, ...

Truncated icosahedron: technical term for a soccer ball in the United States, a football everywhere else. The scientists who vaporized the graphite to produce C 60 named the new carbon allotrope ...

An array of 12 cigar-shaped steel holding tanks connected to a sleek concrete dock is all that can be seen of Northern Lights, Europe’s newest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project. Pipes from the ...

NASA finds carbon molecules in ancient Martian lake, and scientists admit it is difficult to explain them without life.