Organic Chemistry

A meteorite that crashed through a New Jersey roof in 2024 contains ancient salty chemistry and organic compounds, offering new insights into how asteroids may have delivered the building blocks of life to early Earth.

Researchers developed a light-powered method to create high-energy "housane" molecules, which are valuable for drug development and materials science.

New evidence shows original organic molecules, including collagen, can survive in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones, challenging previous scientific understanding.