The universe is 13.8 billion years old—and like many things that have been around for a while, it’s collected lots of dust. And just one of these dust particles could seed an entire planet. After a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the driest high desert in the world, where flamingos flock to mountain lakes and llamas and wild burros roam the rust-colored hills, scientists have built the world’s largest radio telescope. Its ...