Salmon is a nutritional powerhouse packed with protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and various vitamins and minerals. This versatile fish offers numerous health benefits, including reducing inflammation, ...

Life’s ultimate origin will never be known, but researchers are probing the possibilities—for Earth and elsewhere.

Dr. Thomas N. Seyfried champions a metabolic perspective on cancer, highlighting glucose and glutamine as key fuels for tumor growth. His research suggests that targeting these metabolic pathways, ...

When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn's moon Titan, NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan's equator. Clouds drift across its skies.

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. ... Fatty acids are long chains of carbon and hydrogen with a carboxyl (-COOH) acid group at the end. Life-forming chemistry.

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. ... These long carbon chains are thought to have originated from molecules called fatty acids, which, on Earth, ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The discovery is one of the most significant findings in the search for ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet ... (chemically bonded oxygen and hydrogen, OH) groups. Fatty acids may have 4-36 carbon atoms; however, most of them have ...

A Hidden Treasure in Martian MudstoneBack in 2013, NASA’s Curiosity rover drilled into a patch of Martian mud. ... These alkanes are likely fragments of fatty acids, ...

Fatty acids may have 4-36 carbon atoms; however, most of them have 12-18. The longest carbon chains found in Cumberland are 12 atoms long. Mars Sample Return will deliver Mars rocks to Earth for ...

Cumberland's most recent analysis is one of its biggest yet. In the PNAS study, NASA scientists note that they found the molecules decane, undecane, and dodecane within the rock.Each of these ...

NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS When scientists revisited an old Martian rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover, they were initially hunting for evidence of amino acids, the building blocks ...