Evidence is mounting that the same basic chemistry that made Earth habitable is unfolding, or once unfolded, on Mars. From ...

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

A new JSTAT study shows how to compute the minimum energy cells use to sustain certain metabolic pathways while suppressing ...

Turning carbon dioxide into usable fuel with nothing more than sunlight has long sounded like science fiction. A wave of ...

But a team of Chinese researchers has managed to turn sulfur’s complex chemistry into a strength, making it the primary ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

The road to a more sustainable planet may be partially paved with manganese. According to a new study by researchers at Yale ...

There are “costs of life” that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a single-atom photocatalytic strategy that enables ...

In labs focused on clean energy, a quiet shift is underway. Instead of treating carbon dioxide as a dead-end waste gas, ...

The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

Chinese researchers claim they can tripled olefin output from coal by slashing carbon dioxide emissions at the same time.