Titan’s harsh chemistry breaks basic rules, offering new clues about how life’s building blocks might form in space.

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Oxford Univ. Press: 2009. 426 pp. £34.99. Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics was published just as I started college, and although I'd like to say it seduced me away from bench chemistry and into ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

In 2020, while preparing for his second-year candidacy exam in Prashant Kamat’s lab at the University of Notre Dame, Jeffrey DuBose hit a wall. He needed to teach himself about some of the techniques ...

Scientists have found that on Titan, substances that should remain separate can actually combine under freezing conditions. NASA and Chalmers University researchers discovered that hydrogen cyanide ...

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For example, the Nobel prize in economic science, awarded this week, underlined the importance of funding basic research.