This week in science: Mysterious molecules on Mars are tricky to explain without life; a compound that cuts cholesterol as a ...

Yet another tantalizing clue. The post NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars appeared first on Futurism.

A natural compound found in Aloe vera shows potential to block two key Alzheimer’s enzymes, offering a promising lead for future treatment.

Deep inside a nearby galaxy cloaked in thick clouds of gas and dust, astronomers have uncovered a surprising treasure trove ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The discovery was made in ...

Is 3I/ATLAS just a comet — or an intergalactic ark? A NASA spacecraft has discovered organic chemicals on 3I/ATLAS, which ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

In nature, molecules often show a strong preference for partnering with other molecules that share the same chirality or handedness. A behavior that is quite evident in the phenomenon known as ...

Researchers have analyzed the stepwise hydration of prolinol, a molecule widely used as a catalyst and as a building block in ...

Scientists discover how yellow fever and encephalitis viruses enter human cells, and block them with decoy molecules.

Researchers at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge have discovered a ribozyme that is shockingly small, yet capable of the fundamental steps of self-replication. They call it QT45 — ...

Attaching amino acids to a hydrophobic organic molecule allows them to self-assemble into rare, knotted structures with ...