The surprising champion is a chemical we Earthlings think of as painfully hostile to life: concentrated sulfuric acid. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching ...

As indicated in the paper, Venusian clouds are composed of concentrated sulfuric acid. That's a mean, nasty, aggressive chemical that destroys most of Earth life's biochemicals and are thought to ...

And in that mixture, sulfuric acid catalyzes chemical reactions ... with functionally the same structures at the end." Other differences might be more subtle. Concentrated sulfuric acid doesn ...