Complex organic molecules that form part of the chain of chemical reactions that can result in life's building blocks have ...

Nature offers a huge and only partially explored variety of small molecules with potential pharmaceutical applications. Commonly used characterization methods for natural products include ...

Crenarchaeol is a large, closed-loop lipid that is present in the membranes of ammonium-oxidizing archaea. In comparison to other archaeal membrane lipids, crenarchaeol is very complex and, so far, ...

A new analysis of archival data from the Cassini spacecraft has confirmed that the icy jets shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus contain organic molecules - the key building blocks of life. This ...

Researchers found new classes of organic molecules not spotted before that could be involved under the right circumstances in ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus continuously ejects vast quantities of ice particles into space, originating from its subsurface ocean. Researchers at the ...

Newly synthesized organic molecules can be tuned to emit different colors depending on their molecular structures in crystal form. Newly synthesized organic molecules can be tuned to emit different ...

VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...