Scientists have achieved the unthinkable by stabilizing a highly reactive molecule in water, confirming a decades-old theory ...

The nanozymes hypothesis proposes that mineral nanoparticles drove chemical evolution on early Earth, helping transform inert matter into life through catalytic and environmental processes.

A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing ...

An oil painting showing a man and woman in the center of the image; the man on the left reaches out his right hand to take the woman’s right hand. Behind them, a priest in robes and a golden headpiece ...

Recent articles in this journal suggest a straightforward and effective notation for giving structural information about simple inorganic compounds. The present comment recognizes the utility of the ...

Open Molecules 2025, an unprecedented dataset of molecular simulations, has been released to the scientific community, paving the way for the development of machine learning tools that can accurately ...

We know Earth formed roughly 4.54 billion years ago and that the first single cell lifeforms were present roughly 1 billion years after that. What we don’t know is what triggered the process that ...

Earth, in its infancy, offered all the elements needed to construct life. But they couldn’t just assemble themselves into biology’s building blocks. That process, called prebiotic synthesis, required ...

Terrestrial planets like Earth form when interstellar dust coalesces to form a rocky core. Though much of Earth’s crust is made up of inorganic minerals rich in elements such as oxygen, aluminum, and ...