Chemistry isn’t just in labs—it’s in your coffee, your breath, your cleaning routine, and even the weather forecast. From the Ideal Gas Law guiding hot air balloons to magnesium chloride keeping roads ...

Life is a process, not a substance. To be alive is to grow and reproduce; to respond to the environment; to break down and to build up. Each of these living processes is composed of billions of ...

Life evolved from simple geochemical processes present on the early Earth. However, the details of this transformation remain a mystery. In this study, researchers modeled the emergence of metabolic ...

Water may seem like an ordinary substance, but it plays a fundamental role in every known form of life. Its unique chemical ...

If you were able to catch the last webinar from our Chemical Sciences Roundtable, “Chemistry in 2050– Space” you know that it was out of this world, literally and figuratively. The webinar explored ...

Can amino acids, the key building blocks of life, survive high-speed impacts from a spacecraft orbiting another world? This is what a recent study published in The Proceedings of the National Academy ...

A new study explores how complex chemical mixtures change under shifting environmental conditions, shedding light on the prebiotic processes that may have led to life on Earth. In the Painted Desert ...

It is early September. The power of chemistry to give life and the power of chemistry to kill are both on display here in mid-Michigan. The corn now stands well more than head-high. The tassels are ...

Life on Earth may have stayed boring and small if it weren’t thanks to one deadly element. Life’s been around on Earth for at least 3.7 billion years. But for most of that time, it was incredibly ...