A surprising discovery in the cosmos: a complex carbon molecule, cyanopyrene, has been detected outside the Solar System.

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our Solar System.

"By learning more about how these molecules form and are transported in space, we learn more about our own solar system and so, the life within it." Astronomers have discovered one of the largest ...

Carbon is a gregarious little atom, bending over backwards to link with a wide variety of elements in what is collectively ...

The discovery of a four-ring carbon molecule in a distant interstellar cloud may help to reveal how our own solar system formed An asteroid has helped researchers discover the largest molecule ever ...

Scientists have identified a carbon molecule more than 430 light-years away that could act as a interstellar repository for the building blocks of life. The discovery of 1-cyanopyrene, a ...

Precious metals play an important role in the chemical industry as catalysts: With the help of silver, platinum, palladium or ...

Scientists develop electro-biodiesel from CO2 with 45x efficiency, paving the way for carbon-negative fuel production.

At TU Wien, a study revealed that silver nanoparticles on carbon are 200 times more effective than their pure counterparts ...

Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have successfully measured and described the interaction between metal ...