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A common iron mineral hiding in soil turns out to be far better at trapping carbon than scientists realized. Its surface ...

Carbon's unique chemical properties allow it to be an essential building block for life on Earth and many other molecules we rely on for day-to-day life—but what about carbon's neighbor? Silicon is ...

The discovery of a stable single-electron covalent bond between two carbon atoms validates a century-old theory. Covalent bonds, in which two atoms are bound together by sharing a pair of electrons, ...

What if life beyond Earth is not limited to carbon-based organisms like us? A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has stirred up the age-old debate, ...

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. The ...