One of humanity’s most profound questions is whether life exists beyond Earth — and if so, what forms it might take. For ...

The question of life's origin on Earth continues to surprise. A new study challenges an old idea: that a chemical reaction ...

could have given rise to a large number of the molecules that are required for the key elements of life. "What we want to do next is continue probing what kind of chemistry can emerge from this ...

"The human body is, roughly speaking, one percent phosphorus," writes Jack Lohmann in Quillette. The exceedingly rare element ...

The earliest days of Earth held secrets that scientists are still trying to uncover. One of the greatest mysteries is how ...

Self-sustaining chemical reactions that could support biology radically different from life as we know it might exist on many different planets using a variety of elements beyond the carbon upon ...

Chemistry professor Chris Chang’s lab studies the chemical biology of the elements, specifically examining the roles that copper, iron, and zinc play in biology across all kingdoms of life.

What is life? Well, life is lots of things. But from the perspective of our chemistry, life is a constant struggle to gather these five elements from our surroundings. And that’s true for humans and ...

In lead (element 82), for example, the effects of such processes are already at work and contribute to the chemical processes ... other items of our daily life are also phased out, being replaced ...

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Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look ...