And that’s it! Nearly everything in this room, in your room, and in the entire universe, is made of: elements with one kind of atom, compounds containing different types of atoms chemically ...

Carbon, with its myriad compounds, is the backbone of life and the central element of organic chemistry. The number of bonds ...

The idea is that Linus collects a large number of the type of atom (the element) he needs and uses a molecular replicator, that doesn’t exist yet, to create a large quantity of the molecule (the ...

Boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen: these four elements can form chemical ... In the novel molecule, the boron atom is in a ...