NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Splitting water molecules takes more energy than calculations suggest, and is a key roadblock to cheap hydrogen fuel ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on ...

Ultrastrong gels possess generally high modulus and strength yet limited stretchability. Here, the authors overcome this by using a hyperhysteresis-mediated mechanical training strategy to ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

in a call with Popular Science. “Whether it’s knocking into other molecules in the air — or atoms or whatever — or it’s absorbing light and reemitting light, it’s always interacting wi ...

The molecules cannot currently be confirmed as ... The rocks from Yellowknife Bay so intrigued Curiosity’s science team that it had the rover drive in the opposite direction to collect samples ...

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

The APS is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory. Creating a protein sensor for small molecules is very difficult. The protein must ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising role for calcium in shaping the building blocks of life. Their study reveals that calcium ions help determine the molecular 'handedness' (chirality) of tartaric ...