Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds.

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From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu ...

Language models are now also being used in the natural sciences. In chemistry, they are employed, for instance, to predict ...

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a ...

Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, ...

Photochemistry provides a pathway to swap the oxygen atom in oxetane rings with nitrogen, carbon or sulfur at a single stroke ...

When the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored Omar Yaghi—the "father of metal-organic frameworks," or MOFs—along with Susumu ...

APF-80, enables the crystalline sponge method to capture and analyze nucleophilic compounds. Alkaloids, a diverse ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a ...

Astronomers have found a developing ring system around Chiron, an icy body between Saturn and Uranus. This discovery provides ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...