A new analysis of old Cassini data has also verified past detections of complex organics in Saturn’s E ring, strengthening ...

Technology could be used to detect subtle shifts in bodily markers in breath that herald infections and cancers ...

VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...

A new open-access tool created by University of Toronto Engineering researchers provides a systematic way to organize and ...

Many human body odors waft from under our arms and from our groins. That’s where apocrine glands are concentrated, producing ...

Scientists have discovered that the mineral jarosite breaks down organic compounds when it is flash-heated, with implications for Mars research. Jarosite is an iron sulphate and it is one of several ...

From capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or sucking water out of dry desert air, the trio's new form of molecular ...

University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed biosensor technology that, when combined with artificial ...

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has detected organic compounds on Ceres — the first concrete proof of organics on an object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. This material probably originated on ...

Elemental analysis offers scientists a method of determining the elements present in an organic compound, and in what quantity. Various fields of science rely on this type of analysis for research, ...