To get to the heart of the global warming story, the very heart of it, it turns out that the scientific explanation hangs on the behavior of one very particular atom — carbon. The more you know about ...

In chemistry as well as in all adjoining sciences, an understanding of chemical bonding is of fundamental importance. Researchers have now been able to detect the shortest single bond ever observed ...

A chemical bond between a superheavy element and a carbon atom has been established for the first time. This research opens new vistas for studying the effects of Einstein's relativity on the ...

Although the cleavage of C–C bonds in unactivated hydrocarbons by soluble transition-metal complexes remains a challenge, such reactions hold the potential to provide access to previously ...

The tetrahedral geometry of four-coordinate carbon atoms is a steadfast property of organic compounds. Nevertheless, chemists are still attracted to the possibility of twisting or squashing a ...

Scientists filmed a pair of rhenium atoms (simulated here in green) as they bonded over a carbon nanotube (grey) Courtesy of the University of Nottingham Scientists have captured video of a pair of ...

Inverse reports that scientists have recorded video of atoms bonding and separating for the very first time. The research team used transmission electron microscopy in collaboration with the SALVE ...

Last month we heard about a brand new solid form of carbon, separate to the graphite and diamond forms that we already know so well. Called Q-Carbon because of the way that it is created (carbon is ...

To get to the heart of the global warming story, the very heart of it, it turns out that the scientific explanation hangs on the behavior of one very particular atom - carbon. So the more you know ...

Many materials scientists predict that the tiny, hollow cylinders of carbon atoms known as carbon nanotubes will eventually lead to a new generation of supersmall transistors. But first, researchers ...