By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

The tiny protein known as transthyretin can cause big problems in the body when it misfolds after secretion. While healthy ...

I was fascinated by the idea of jet packs when I was a kid. They were sci-fi magic, and the idea that you could strap into an ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Accept & Close The ACS takes your privacy seriously as it relates to cookies. We use cookies to remember users, better understand ways to serve them, improve our value proposition, and optimize their ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Stuart Rice, who specialized in physical chemistry during a long career as a professor and researcher at the University of ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...