Crucially, Kaiser and his colleagues found that carbamic acid and ammonium carbamate, which was also produced in the experiment, can sublimate to form stable gases as the molecular cloud warms up ...

While life on Earth is relatively new, geologically speaking, the ingredients that combined to form it might be much older than once thought. The simplest amino acid, carbamic acid, could have ...

Now, Ralf Kaiser at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his colleagues have found a key amino acid, called carbamic acid, could be created via reactions on clumps of ice in deep space. Carbamic ...

Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa suggest carbamic acid's formation on icy space clumps, offering insights into the origin of life's building blocks. Carbamic acid, a precursor to ...