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, ...

The gas is an essential part of life on Earth—but right now we have too much of a good thing. Cineca in Bologna, Italy, is a computing center with one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.

An image of the star-forming region NGC 6357 with the young star XUE 10. Observations with JWST/MIRI reveal a planet-forming disk whose spectrum shows clear detections of four distinct forms of carbon ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected an unusually carbon dioxide rich disk around the young star XUE 10, revealing scarce water vapor where planets may form and challenging ...

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have uncovered how soil food webs promote the transformation and storage of photosynthetic carbon in ...