chemistry

JWST reveals the 'dark chemistry' which occurs before the birth of stars

We need more scientific processes with spooky names like dark chemistry!

By Cassidy Ward | 

4 days ago

Hold the fries! Too much salt may be supersizing your stress levels

We never expected so severe a betrayal, not from a potato.

By Cassidy Ward | 

2 months ago

Your nose knows similarly scented people and wants you to be friends

We're basically dogs sniffing one another.

By Cassidy Ward | 

7 months ago

How the first life-forms on Earth could have spawned from something not alive

You might be the result of a chemical reaction that happened billions of years ago.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

8 months ago

Building an insect Air Force, using flies to detect chemical weapons

You are what you eat, and it turns out flies sometimes eat chemical weapons.

By Cassidy Ward | 

10 months ago

We could find out how life on Earth spawned from largest molecules ever found around forming planets

If aliens aren't out there now, they might be in the future.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

10 months ago

Life’s peptide building blocks could have originated in space

Wherever we came from, we're glad we made it to Earth. It's nice here.

By Cassidy Ward | 

11 months ago

Gasoline could soon come from... gasoline exhaust

Bye, pollution, because CO2 can now be turned into 1,000 times more gasoline.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

11 months ago

The early Earth soaked up interstellar water vapor like a sponge

We're awash in a vast cosmic ocean, we just need to drink it up.

By Cassidy Ward | 

11 months ago

Is deadly poison the secret to the emergence of life on Earth and elsewhere?

Cyanide turns out to be the ultimate in acquired allergies.

By Cassidy Ward | 

11 months ago