Cambridge scientists have built a solar-powered leaf that turns carbon dioxide into sustainable fuel and everyday chemicals.

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, ...

Carbynes, or long linear carbon chains (LLCCs), have received significant attention in recent years due to their predicted ...

In a new study, chemists have developed a novel framework for determining how effectively carbon monoxide sticks to the ...

Lithium-ion batteries are a crucial decarbonisation tool that enables renewable energy integration and cutting fossil fuel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...