Fungi produce a wide variety of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which play central roles in the initiation and regulation of fungal interactions. Here we introduce a global overview of fungal VOC ...

Saturn’s moon Enceladus ejects a plume of ice grains and gases originating from a subsurface ocean via fractures near its south pole. The chemical characterization of organic material in such ice ...

So-called indirect greenhouse gases, including carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds, aren’t covered by climate ...

A Chinese research team has reported the discovery of abiotic organic compounds in the oceanic crust of the Southwest Indian Ridge and proposed a molecular mechanism for organic condensation. This ...

Chemists studying how life started often focus on how modern biopolymers like peptides and nucleic acids contributed, but modern biopolymers don't form easily without help from living organisms. A ...

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, ...

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) represent a class of organic chemicals that demonstrate a remarkable tendency to vaporize at room temperature, thus facilitating their rapid evaporation into the ...

Fresh aroma is one of the qualities that makes litchi immediately recognizable, yet the chemistry and genetics behind this ...