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, ...

Transition Industries LLC, a developer of world-scale, net-zero carbon emissions methanol and hydrogen projects, signed a ...

Drainage from abandoned coal mines can carry massive loads of carbon dioxide, venting to the air decades or even centuries ...

If you know what diatoms are, it's probably because of their beauty. These single-celled algae found on the ocean floor have ...

We've gone to the bottom of the ocean to study how its chemistry shapes our planet's climate, even chasing lava-spewing ...

Carbon fibers (CFs) are advanced materials that benefit various applications, including light-weight components for aircraft, ...

Humans have a complicated relationship with ethanol. Of course, many drink the stuff. People have also been working for decades to scale it up as a fuel and a chemical feedstock. The dream is that ...

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 ...