Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, People’s Republic of China ...

Ministry-of-Education Key Laboratory for the Synthesis and Application of Organic Functional Molecules, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, P.R. China ...

The newly detected compounds suggest complex organic chemistry may have occurred in the planet’s past — the kind necessary for the origin of life, according to new research. The organic ...