A study on ancient rocks reveals how fossil fuels form: abundant life, salty water, some oxygen, and crucial protection from clay minerals washed in from land preserve organic matter, even without ...

Centuries ago, alchemists worked furiously to convert the common metal lead to valuable gold. Today, chemists are repurposing ...

A research team has discovered an electrochemical method that allows highly selective para-position single-carbon insertion ...

A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

Influent concentration, flow rate, and background dissolved organic carbon affect hydrophilic organic migration in biochar stormwater filters. A transport model predicts migration and quantifies di ...

The Mars Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules yet on the Red Planet. Organic molecules are the building blocks of life, although they can also be produced by geological processes.

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

The Mars Curiosity rover ’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on the Red Planet. The trio of long-chain compounds preserved in Martian ...

In a breakthrough discovery, researchers have found the largest organic compounds ever seen on Mars, offering new clues about whether life once existed on the Red Planet. Buried within a 3.7 ...