Researchers find that cosmic dust acts as a catalyst, helping simple space gases form key molecules that may jump-start ...

Electronic cigarettes release potentially harmful levels of carbon monoxide, according to research conducted at Bucknell University in Lewisburg that challenges vaping industry claims. The study shows ...

Since Roger Bacon discovered “graphite whiskers” in 1958 at Union Carbide’s Parma Technical Center (now GrafTech International), carbon fibers have been used in high performance applications from ...

Oregon State University scientists have found a way to more than double the uptake ability of a chemical structure that can ...

While daydreaming on a bus, and then while dozing by the fireside, Auguste Kekulé realized that carbon atoms can combine into ...

When scientists search for extraterrestrial life, they invariably focus on the sixth element on the periodic table: Carbon. "I don't think even most humans have much self-awareness, let alone bacteria ...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers have developed a carbon-negative building material that could reshape what ...

LifeTracer uses machine learning to spot subtle molecular patterns that separate biological chemistry from nonliving organics.

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 ...