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 ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

A map of the CMB published by ACT researchers. Research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope collaboration has led to the ...

Free radicals are highly reactive and unstable molecules that are made by the body naturally as a byproduct of normal metabolism. Free radicals can also be made by the body after exposure to toxins in ...

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 ...

Scientists at Goethe University uncover how the oldest enzyme in cellular respiration functions – opening the door to ...

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