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, ...

Dedicated at the University of Chicago on October 10, 2016. In 1946, Willard Libby proposed an innovative method for dating organic materials by measuring their content of carbon-14, a newly ...

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 ...

A large, raised, spherical tank reads "I'm green." Braskem is already making ethylene and derivatives from ethanol at scale in Brazil. Credit: Braskem Humans have a complicated relationship with ...

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

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 ...

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