In this interactive activity adapted from NOVA, explore the prevalence of ringed-carbon structures in the natural world, as well as the structural variations that give rise to their unique chemical ...

The Earth seems to inhale and exhale in a new animation that shows how carbon is taken up and released as the seasons change. The animated continents seem to deflate during summertimes, indicating ...

Carbon, with its myriad compounds, is the backbone of life and the central element of organic chemistry. The number of bonds ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently used its powerful instruments to identify a carbon compound known as methyl cation (CH 3 +), also called methenium, which is responsible for ...

Some of the thinnest materials known to humankind -- MXene and MBene compounds -- may provide solutions to scientists in their quest to curb the effects of global warming. These substances are only a ...