The emphasis on sustainability and green chemistry within undergraduate labs mirrors efforts by UC Berkeley’s department of ...

Scientists in Spain have shown that spray-drying equipment can be used to perform three common organic reactions. The ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

Far from Earth's hustle and bustle, in a hostile environment dominated by cold and a barely perceptible atmosphere, remnants ...

Scientists analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA's Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the red ...

Researchers caution that the molecules could be of abiotic or biological origin, and do not represent definitive proof of ...

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

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found traces of decane, undecane and dodecane in Martian rock. These compounds are thought to be ...

The newly detected compounds suggest complex organic chemistry may have occurred in the planet’s past — the kind necessary for the origin of life, according to new research. The organic ...