Carbon capture in Mediterranean soil: How farmland can trap greenhouse gases
Imagine if we could find a way to capture the greenhouse gases that are warming our planet. One way to do this is carbon ...
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Compounds critical to life found on ancient asteroid
The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 billion years ago. The presence of evaporites means that sodium-rich water once ...
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NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samples
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
NASA's asteroid sample reveals key chemistry that could lead to life
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
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Asteroid Bennu contains building blocks of life
Analysis of samples taken from the asteroid Bennu reveal the presence of organic compounds important for life, and that its ...
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National Organic Chemistry Symposium will ‘Return to Roots’
The 49th National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS), sponsored by the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical ...