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Curiosity Finds Its Most Diverse Martian Organics Yet, Including a Nitrogen Heterocycle

The detections point to a once-habitable chemistry on Mars without showing that the organics came from life.

OpenAI Launches GPT-Rosalind, a Biology-Tuned AI for Drug Discovery

Blood Proteins Build Conductive Polymers in Living Brains for Reversible Neural Control

Experiments Reveal Hidden Critical Point in Supercooled Water

Ultrafast X-Rays Reveal Elusive Critical Point in Supercooled Water

Japan’s ‘Smile Ball’ Tearless Onion Enters Wider Sale With 180 Tonnes Expected This Year

Study Ties Planetary Habitability to a Narrow Oxygen Window in Core Formation

Bennu Samples Show Amino Acids Likely Formed in Icy, Radioactive Environments

New Study Rewinds Curiosity’s Mars Organics to Levels Hard to Explain Geologically

Lab Study Shows Peptides Can Form on Icy Space Dust Under Cosmic-Ray Conditions

Chai Discovery Raises $130 Million Series B at $1.3 Billion Valuation

UC San Diego Releases Public GNPS Drug Library to Identify Drug Exposure From Patient Samples

Bennu Samples Yield Ribose, Glucose and a Novel Polymer in Peer-Reviewed Analyses

OSIRIS-REx Study Reports Tryptophan Signal in Pristine Bennu Sample

Vitamin B2–Glucose Flow Battery Shows Promising Power, Reveals Stability Hurdles

Sharper, Slower Cuts Curb Onion Tear Spray, New Physics Study Finds

Unified Model Reveals How Antimicrobial Peptides Form Transient Pores to Kill Bacteria

Thioesters Link Amino Acids to RNA in Water, Advancing Origin‑of‑Life Chemistry

Minimal Tripeptides Enable Refrigeration-Free Stabilization of Vaccines and Proteins

Modern Humans Experienced Two Rounds of Selection on a Brain Enzyme