A team of Japanese researchers has made a groundbreaking discovery, validating a century-old theory by Linus Pauling. They have successfully isolated a compound containing a stable single-electron covalent bond between two carbon atoms, a feat previously unattainable.
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Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy dating back to just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest discovery of an element other than hydrogen in the universe. This challenges the assumption that carbon formed billions of years later and suggests that life could have emerged much earlier than previously thought.