To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly ...

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

Microscopic red algae, responsible for a phenomenon also known as watermelon snow or blood snow, are proliferating due to global warming and in turn accelerating it ...

NASA’s Curiosity Martian rover finds organic-like, long-chain alkanes preserved in the planet’s mudstone Twelve years after ...

Researchers have developed a novel combination of materials that have organic and inorganic properties, with the goal of ...

To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly developed process helps solve this problem: CO2 is directly split ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to ...

The JWST once again proves it might have been worth the money. Astronomers have spotted a surprising signature of oxygen in a ...

A new study provides fresh insight into traditional acid-base chemistry by revealing that the mutual neutralization of ...

Plants shape Earth’s atmosphere by moving carbon and water vapour. New research sheds light on how they learned to do it – ...