The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), operated by NASA, has uncovered intriguing new details about Charon—Pluto’s largest ...

A team of researchers at IMDEA Nanociencia institute and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore has unveiled a new class of gas ...

The activated carbon filter market has long been associated with traditional industrial domains like chemical processing, ...

Carbon nanotube sensor array detects VOCs below 100 ppb with high selectivity, enabling electronic nose applications for ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered important new clues in the mystery of how an ...

Caltech scientists convert CO2 into tough industrial plastics using a dual-loop system powered by renewable electricity.

Stony meteorites called chondrites, formed over 4 billion years ago, have given scientists a glimpse of the early Solar System. They are separated into multiple classes based on their chemical ...

Compounds of oxygen and carbon are of interest for space research, battery technology, biochemical studies, and — surprisingly — for the development of industrial explosives and rocket fuel.

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 ...

A complex form of carbon crucial for life on Earth has been spotted outside the solar system for the first time. Its presence helps show how the compounds needed for life could come from space.