Organic compounds are all around us ... Petroleum is also the raw material for many chemical products (e.g., pharmaceuticals, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics). The pharmaceutical ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed through a non-biological process ...

Generation of hydrogen (H₂) by means of photocatalysis has been at the forefront of research since the 1970s because it can ...

An investigation done by Consumer Reports is raising concerns about the safety of synthetic braiding hair. The organization ...

For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red Planet may have supported life. Now, new research based on an old rock ...

Far from Earth's hustle and bustle, in a hostile environment dominated by cold and a barely perceptible atmosphere, remnants of a distant past have been unearthed. These carbon chains rekindle ...

demonstrates that water sprayed into a mixture of gases present in the early atmosphere can lead to the formation of organic chemical compounds such as uracil, one of the molecules in RNA.

Curiosity has been exploring the Gale Crater on Mars since 2012 and its sample with the fatty acid molecules were found in a ...

In a joint project between the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry and Skoltech, a research group led by RAS Academician Valentin Ananikov has developed a unique machine-learning-based search ...

Long before neurological symptoms appear, patients exhibit early signs, some of which are associated with specific chemical scent signatures known as volatile organic compounds. Researchers study ...