About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

Iowa State University researchers evaluated imidazolium-based ZILs with sulfonate and triflimide anions to understand the ...

These molecules could actually be fragments of fatty acids, which are found in ... compounds in Gale crater sedimentary rocks, with chemical structures of up to six carbon atoms.

Scientists have for the first time looked deep into the protein structure that may determine our vision - and discovered that ...

The fatty acid esters, which resemble petroleum diesel's molecular structure, become biodiesel while the glycerol goes into the wastewater as a byproduct. If left untreated, glycerol can pollute ...