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 ...

Since it was first synthesized in a post-WW2 American lab in 1949, berkelium has been a rebel of the periodic table, defying ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers are opening up new horizons in chemistry: They present the world's first triple bond between the atoms boron and carbon. Boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen: these four elements can ...