Unless you’re already familiar with certain sub-fields of chemistry, especially those having to do with the origin of life or certain questions in cosmic evolution, you probably haven’t heard the term...

Laboratory experiments play a key role in deciphering the chemistry of the interstellar medium (ISM) and the formation of complex organic molecules (COMs) re...

Discovery of the Seven-ring Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Cyanocoronene (C24H11CN) in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1, Wenzel, Gabi, Gong, Siyuan, Xue, Ci, Changala, P. Bryan, Holdren, Martin S., Speak, Thomas H., Stewart, D. Archie, Fried, Zachary T. P., Willis, Reace H. J., Bergin, Edwin A., Burkhardt, Andrew M., Byrne, Alex N., Charnley, Steven B., Lipnicky, Andrew, Loomis, Ryan A., Shingledecker, Christopher N., Cooke, Ilsa R., McCarthy, Michael C., Remijan, Anthony J., Wendlandt, Alison E., McGuire, Brett A.

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A Catalytic Pathway for the Formation of Cyanobenzene in Nitrogen-rich Environments and the Spectroscopy of the Reactive Intermediates, Esposito, Vincent J., Alessandrini, Silvia, Dubois, David, Fortenberry, Ryan C.

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Hydroxybenzene molecules, including tannic acid, catalyze the hydrolysis of p-nitrophenylacetate (pNPA) to p-nitrophenol and thioacetylcholine (tAChI) to thiocholine. The catalytic performance is gov....

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In an iron-sulfide chemical garden experiment that mimics the kind of hydrothermal vents that might have occurred in the early Archaean, mackinawite and greigite are precipitated and abiotic H2 is pro...

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Without catalyst! A non-enzymatic, spontaneous route to the formation of short, mixed-sequence RNA strands from 2′,3′-cyclic ribonucleotides is shown. The reaction occurs by drying at the air–water i...

Dimethyl sulfide (DMS; CH3SCH3) is an organosulfur compound that has been suggested as a potential biosignature in exoplanetary atmospheres.

Weighing The Other Evidence Roughly a billion years after planet Earth's formation, complex microbial communities were already thriving al...

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Molecular Darwinian evolution is an intrinsic property of reacting pools of molecules resulting in the adaptation of the system to changing conditions. It has no a priori aim. From the point of view o...

Benthic microbial mats in gas-saturated zones of ice-covered lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys have various bubble-supported morphologies Liftoff mats form a succession of morphologies with bubble...

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Scientific Reports - Chiral symmetry breaking and information accumulation in pre-biological protocell evolution

Most stars form in clusters, where hundreds to thousands of stars coevolve in proximal environmental conditions that dictate how planetary systems might develop.

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Heat flows through rock cracks drive the permanent solubilization of phosphate from apatite and its accumulation from phosphate bearing geomaterials, offering a non-equilibrium pathway to approach the...

Lab measurements of Mars simulant-halite mixtures were made to calculate water abundances specific to chloride bearing deposits on Mars Updated fitting parameters are used to derive hydration sta...