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, ...

A large, raised, spherical tank reads "I'm green." Braskem is already making ethylene and derivatives from ethanol at scale in Brazil. Credit: Braskem Humans have a complicated relationship with ...

Drainage from abandoned coal mines can carry massive loads of carbon dioxide, venting to the air decades or even centuries ...

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 ...

Carbon fibers (CFs) are advanced materials that benefit various applications, including light-weight components for aircraft, ...

If you know what diatoms are, it's probably because of their beauty. These single-celled algae found on the ocean floor have ...

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 ...

Anurag Choudhary leads Himadri Speciality Chemical’s transformation from carbon materials to clean energy, driving India’s ...