We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

What's the right business laptop for your employees? The HP EliteBook X G1a 14 AI and Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 are ...

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 ...

Turning plant waste into biochar captures loads of carbon. New research suggests it stays trapped for much longer than ...

The New Jersey Poison Control Center in January assisted in the medical care of a family of four exposed to dangerous carbon ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets! Scientists found that when mist and sprays collide, they generate microlightning ...

The nation's nascent low-carbon liquid fuels industry has been given a kick along with the release of $250 million to ...

With high carbon dioxide, low oxygen and no photosynthesis, here’s how an entire ecosystem persists in Movile Cave, one of the most extreme environments on Earth.

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. Radiocarbon dating, or carbon-14 dating, is a ...

For all its plant and animal life aboveground ... As biomass like trees and crops grow, they sequester carbon in their leaves and branches. Heat that biomass up without fully consuming it and ...