Researchers have analyzed the stepwise hydration of prolinol, a molecule widely used as a catalyst and as a building block in ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The discovery was made in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks inside Gale Crater. These molecules show that ancient Mars ...

Organic molecules found by the Curiosity rover are too common to be explained by any process we know, other than life, ...

In nature, molecules often show a strong preference for partnering with other molecules that share the same chirality or handedness. A behavior that is quite evident in the phenomenon known as ...

A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

Scientists use AI to generate designs of potential new molecules, a process that is 10 times faster and more precise.

Scientists discover how yellow fever and encephalitis viruses enter human cells, and block them with decoy molecules.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims “petroleum-based chemicals” are inherently poisonous, but that’s chemically illiterate: ...

Attaching amino acids to a hydrophobic organic molecule allows them to self-assemble into rare, knotted structures with ...

A common iron mineral hiding in soil turns out to be far better at trapping carbon than scientists realized. Its surface ...

Scientists have uncovered three nitriles in lab-made interstellar ice that could serve as new targets for astronomers ...