Researchers at The University of Osaka have discovered a new type of chiral symmetry breaking (CSB) in an organic crystalline ...

A review article written by researchers at Imperial College London (United Kingdom) explored the potential of volatile ...

Mars rovers like Perseverance and Curiosity have been making headlines with their discoveries of organic matter on the Red Planet. These findings are pivotal as they may hold clues to past life and ...

The organic compounds, which include decane, undecane and dodecane, came to light after the rover analyzed a pulverized 3.7 billion-year-old rock sample using its onboard mini lab called SAM ...

A team led by Nagoya University has shown that artificial photosynthesis is feasible using organic materials. Using the technique, they successfully synthesized useful organic compounds, including ...

Along with another volatile organic compound called 2-methylisoborneol or 2-MIB, geosmin is primarily responsible for the characteristic smell of earth—and both contribute greatly to the smell ...

Scientists from MIT explore how life could exist without water, using ionic liquids in extreme planetary environments.

Scientists have discovered the largest organic compounds ever detected on Mars, raising the prospects of life having been present on the red planet. Curiosity drilled into the rock target known as ...