More metal than ever is entering the upper atmosphere because of space traffic, with unknown effects on climate ...

It is now easier to investigate space chemistry on Earth as well. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg have conducted initial experiments in a unique ...

Creating complex molecules in deep space is anything but easy. To the best of current knowledge, the natural laboratories in which the necessary reactions take place are interstellar dust grains with ...

When a molecule interacts with a single UV or vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) photon, it can respond by promoting one of its electrons to an excited bound state or to the ionization continuum, leaving a hole ...

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) represent one of the longest-standing enigmas in astronomical spectroscopy. These broad absorption features, observed in the optical and near-infrared spectra of ...

Using a machine learning technique that compares molecular fingerprints left behind by living organisms, researchers have ...

The Astrophysical Chemistry Group is pleased to invite you to give a talk and/or present a poster at the Annual Meeting of the ApChem Group that will be held in the Lecture Theatre of the GO Jones ...

This episode features a wide-ranging interview with the astrochemist Ewine van Dishoeck, who is professor emeritus of molecular astrophysics at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. In 2018 she was ...

Join us in Baltimore in May 2023 for this latest addition to our Faraday Discussion series. For over 100 years and 300 meetings, Faraday Discussions have led the conversation in the sciences lying ...

This computer-generated graphic shows a schematic representation of the molecular CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system. The Cas9 enzyme (orange) cuts the DNA (blue) in the location selected by the RNA (red ...

What chemical processes in space could have created the building blocks of life is being researched by chemists. In their experiments, the scientists are simulating the conditions in space to ...