Chemists have measured for the first time the bond dissociation energy of a superheavy element compound, confirming that ...

Why is carbon the foundation of life? This video explains how carbon became the backbone of living chemistry by combining ...

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, ...

The bonds between clusters of elements in the fourteenth group of the periodic table are known to be fickle. Ranging from the nonmetal carbon, to the metalloids silicon and germanium, to the metals ...

Researchers compared computer models with observations of stars in the Milky Way, and found that massive stars are the dominant source of carbon in the Galaxy.

In a study published in Nature Chemistry, an international team of researchers from Germany and the U.K., including chemists ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Using NASA’s Spitzer Telescope, an international research team has found evidence that some stars in the center of the Milky Way galaxy have both carbon and oxygen in the dust that ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Robert Hazen is one of five expert speakers ...

After two decades of debate, scientists are getting closer to figuring out exactly what the sun — and thus the whole universe — is made of. The sun is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium. There are ...

Recent research published in Nature Astronomy by astronomers at the University of Arizona suggests that galaxies actually ...