Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

Over the following century, molecules and pioneering olfactory science would become the building blocks of a global business-to-business perfume and taste company. Today, Firmenich employs 10,000 ...

In science as in art, a picture is worth a thousand ... Researchers today continue to rely on images of important molecules to confirm their educated guesses. Like Rosalind Franklin, these ...

Pheromones are mysterious compounds that can increase attraction for mammals - but as much as the fragrance industry wants us ...

Researchers verified the chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, i.e., the influence of chiral molecules on spin, using ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

Moreover, these organic molecules were once immersed in a brine ... The origin of life remains one of science’s greatest and most persistent mysteries. Solving it is challenging because life ...

A new tool could make it easier to study scarce plant molecules. Researchers have developed so-called microbial cell factories -- using E. coli and yeast -- to produce a special class of plant ...

But the molecules we have developed already could one day be useful in photonics and optical systems, where highly specific sensors are prized, or in highly targeted drug delivery applications.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose. By Carl Zimmer Our solar system contains ...