Crucially, Kaiser and his colleagues found that carbamic acid and ammonium carbamate, which was also produced in the experiment, can sublimate to form stable gases as the molecular cloud warms up ...

Now, Ralf Kaiser at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his colleagues have found a key amino acid, called carbamic acid, could be created via reactions on clumps of ice in deep space. Carbamic ...

Carbamic acid, a precursor to complex amino acids, may have emerged in the cold expanses of space. Amino acids, the fundamental constituents of proteins crucial for life, ...

While life on Earth is relatively new, geologically speaking, the ingredients that combined to form it might be much older than once thought. According to research published in ACS Central Science, ...