New experiments show that biomolecules the form the basis of all life were present in the Earth's atmosphere before the first ...

According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...

Abiotic chemistry in Earth’s atmosphere could have generated biologically important organosulfur molecules as life was ...

The atmosphere may have blanketed the Earth with molecules containing sulfur billions of years ago. In A Nutshell Laboratory ...

Researchers recreated conditions from billions of years ago and found that Earth’s young atmosphere could make key molecules ...

Using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer capable of detecting trace chemicals, the researchers discovered that their early Earth simulation created an entire collection of sulfur biomolecules. These ...

A CU Boulder-led study finds that Earth’s early atmosphere could have produced key sulfur biomolecules essential for life, ...

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and Barry Sharpless for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry. Each laureate played a crucial ...

The functional groups participating in the reaction are inert to biologically active molecules, and reactive selectively with each other. The chemistry of the reaction must also be nontoxic to the ...