Imagine a world where the oxygen you need changes dramatically between day and night. Your world shifts from being rich in oxygen (oxic) in the day, so you have energy to hunt for food, to ...

Chains of up to a dozen carbon atoms have been detected in what appears to have been an ancient lakebed on Mars, contributing ...

Microscopic red algae, responsible for a phenomenon also known as watermelon snow or blood snow, are proliferating due to global warming and in turn accelerating it ...

San Jose startup Savor is making a new type of vegan butter that's made from carbon, not plants. Here's how they're doing it ...

NASA’s Curiosity Martian rover finds organic-like, long-chain alkanes preserved in the planet’s mudstone Twelve years after ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly ...

To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly developed process helps solve this problem: CO2 is directly split ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy. Astronomers from two separate research teams made the ...

Researchers suggest that certain gases detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets could be key indicators in the search for ...

NASA's robotic vehicle has found unprecedentedly large organic molecules on the red planet, although scientists have not been able to determine their origin. They were formed 3.7 billion years ago ...

We can’t say the molecules are the product of life, but the findings indicate if Mars had life billions of years ago, the ...