James Webb Telescope Spots Complex Organic Molecules Near Forming Stars, Revealing Planetary Origins

Medicine & Technology Mar 15, 2024

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of icy building blocks swirling around young stars sheds light on astrochemistry's mysteries. Read the article to learn more.

Saturn Moon 'Enceladus' Found Spewing Organic Molecules From Waters Below Its Shell of Ice

Dec 19, 2023

The organic molecules that are spewed from beneath the icy shell of Enceladus could possibly signify conditions for life formation. Read to learn more.

Skoltech Leads Open-Source Project Using Neural Networks to Generate Organic Molecule Nomenclature

Aug 04, 2021

A new open-source project employs a neural network to create names for organic compounds compliant with the IUPAC nomenclature systems - showing the potential of this technology to efficiently handle exact algorithmic problems.

Retrosynthesis of Organic Molecules Made Possible Through Artificial Intelligence

Jun 15, 2019

Scientists train a neural model to show best reactions in producing target organic molecules

Researchers Invented Method To Use Data From FRAP To Understand Cellular Process

Apr 27, 2017

In order to better understand how molecules move inside the cells, researchers invented a tool to use FRAP data to examine the motion at a cellular level.

Organic Molecules Discovered in Young Star System

Apr 10, 2015

Astronomers have detected the presence of two molecules in the disc surrounding the star designated MWC 480, in a region that is similar to the Kuiper Belt around our Sun. The discovery of these building blocks of life in a young star shows that the conditions that create organic molecules can happen across the cosmos.

Can Life Form in Another Solar System? Scientists Find Building Blocks for Life Around Million-Year-Old Star

Apr 09, 2015

While researchers have long believed that the circumstances and the molecular structures involved in the creation of our Sun and of our Earth were unique, it appears that far off in space there may be another solar system brimming with potential for life someday. Utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) researchers with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have detected for the first time ever the complex organic molecules necessary to create life in a protoplanetary disk surrounding an infant star only a million years into its formation.

With the Help of ALMA Astronomers Find Complex Organic Molecules in Infant Solar System

Apr 08, 2015

While researchers have long believed that the circumstances and the molecular structures involved in the creation of our Sun and of our Earth were unique, it appears that far off in space there may be another solar system brimming with potential for life someday. Utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) researchers with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have detected for the first time ever the complex organic molecules necessary to create life in a protoplanetary disk surrounding an infant star only a million years into its formation.