Seals, dolphins, and seabirds are becoming ill and dying in disturbing numbers on West Coast beaches. The culprit is an algae ...

Catharina Capitaine and Melanie Schüßler from the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany ...

Three long-chain alkanes detected by Nasa’s Curiosity rover could be chemical biosignatures that point to a history of past ...

Malonic Acid Market Key market drivers for malonic acid include its increasing demand in the production of bioplastics, pharmaceuticals, an ...

Chemists from HSE University and the Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INEOS RAS) have developed a new method for synthesising amides, essential ...

The molecules, while not a direct sign of life, still signal the existence of complex chemistry on the Red Planet.

The molecules may be remnants of fatty acids, which form cell membranes in Earth’s organisms, though they might have formed through a non-biological process ...

For more than a decade, a robotic explorer has been traveling across Mars, quietly collecting clues about a time when the Red Planet may have supported life. Now, new research based on an old rock ...

A team of scientists just discovered the longest organic molecules yet seen on Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun and and a ...

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing to a growing library of compounds that could be a vital clue about the ...

Follow up laboratory experiments confirmed that these molecules are long-chain carboxylic acids. Thanks to the preservation-friendly ... us closer to uncovering signs of complex, life-like chemistry ...