So, if astrobiologists ever do find alien life with a weird chemistry that uses some liquid other than water, it's not likely ...

An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing ...

Researchers at MSU found that H₃⁺ can form in unexpected ways. They studied molecules hit by high-energy light.

Could a pile of rocks help to solve the climate crisis? Scientists at California’s Stanford University say they could. The ...

Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System Scientists have uncovered salt minerals in ...

Fluctuations in ancient Earth’s environment might have propelled the chemical complexity that laid the foundation for life.

In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn ...

Dissolved Organic Matter is a mysterious and still largely unidentified combination of substances that is thought to be ...

The earthy smell that arises when rain falls is known as petrichor. Two Australian scientists coined the term in 1964.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals first developed in the 1940s to withstand intense heat and ...

All life on Earth uses L proteins and D sugars. Even Archaea, a large group of microorganisms with unusual chemical compositions ... speculating about making biopolymers that would mirror compounds in ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...