A small but mighty microbe that can safely extract the rare earth and other critical elements for building everything from satellites to solar panels has another superpower: capturing carbon dioxide.

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, ...

TAMPA, Fla. (Jan. 2, 2024) – When Hannah Hunt signed on for a two-month global research project in the Amundsen Sea in the Antarctic, she knew that meant she wouldn't be spending the holidays with ...

The world as we know it has evolved through the transformation of natural elements repurposed for our daily lives. Among these elements, carbon and carbon dioxide (CO2) hold a significant place, ...

Lava rubble at the bottom of the sea is acting like a giant "sponge" for carbon dioxide, ancient cores reveal. Ancient lava ...

Arianna Morfin, a Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists Community College Internships program student, is part of a team studying olivine, an important mineral for carbon storage and a ...

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.

The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen ...

After two decades of debate, scientists are getting closer to figuring out exactly what the sun — and thus the whole universe — is made of. The sun is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium. There are ...

Most elements hungrily combine with all the oxygen they can find. So how could any free oxygen still remain to be floating ...

An inspiring new book entitled Climate Restoration: The Only Future That Will Sustain The Human Race, authored by Peter Fiekowsky with Carole Douglis, tells us that the battle to restore Earth’s ...