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, ...
CARBON is the building block of life as we know it, but this image reveals that the element is also a universe unto itself. Artist Charles Lindsay created this magnified image by suspending carbon in ...
Chemist and writer Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table—a memoir in the form of short stories about elements—closes with a chapter called “Carbon,” which tracks a single atom through time and space.