The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

The integration of O-PTIR and laser scanning technologies is advancing microplastics analysis, offering superior chemical ...

US Customs and Border Protection is paying General Dynamics to create prototype “quantum sensors,” to be used with an AI ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

What would in any other place have passed as a substantial intelligence, a planet that is alive, or a star that is engineered? Radio signals and intentional messages formed the basis of the search of ...

Scientists have uncovered three nitriles in lab-made interstellar ice that could serve as new targets for astronomers searching for prebiotic chemistry in the depths of space.

Sum-frequency generation (SFG) is a powerful vibrational spectroscopy that can selectively probe molecular structures at ...

Mid- and far-infrared birefringent crystals are key functional materials for polarization control, laser technologies, and ...

Infrared spectroscopy (IR spectroscopy) is an optical technique that detects molecular bond vibrations and rotations upon absorption of infrared light. Because different chemical functional groups ...

Raman spectroscopy is an optical technique that detects intrinsic vibrational, rotational and other low-frequency modes in molecules upon inelastic scattering of monochromatic light. Because different ...

“Iris Green,” a pigment extracted from the petals of blue iris flowers, was popular in the medieval era as an alternative to ...