Precious metals are not merely ornaments; they are also important components of pharmaceuticals, like the antitumor drug ...

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

Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for ...

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

This is because, on Earth at least, relatively complex, long-chain carbon molecules are involved in biology. These molecules could actually be fragments of fatty acids, which are found in ...