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University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

The production of a wide range of chemical substances can be made more sustainable and cleaner through the use of light. In the EU project PROSPER, an international network of doctoral students, ...

Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a new way to convert abundant carbon dioxide (CO 2) into formate (HCO 2 ...

A class taught by chemist Li-Qiong Wang teaches the molecular building blocks of artistic expression and enables students to make some art of their own along the way.