There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth ... chemicals so simple they're called the "building blocks" of life. Some carbon bound up in the food web stays bound up for ...

Atoms are the building blocks of everything ... Find out about the structure and properties of the element carbon. What are elements? A visual explanation of chemical elements.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

Organometallic molecules, which consist of a metal ion surrounded by a carbon-based framework, are relatively common for early actinide elements like ... periodic table's f-block.

Researchers named the compound “berkelocene” because it is comparable to the compound “uranocene,” a uranium-containing ...

Berkelium is one of 15 actinides in the periodic table's f-block ... of these fascinating elements," Abergel said. More information: Dominic R. Russo et al, Berkelium–carbon bonding in a ...