Life as we know it needs water, but life as we don't know it may run on concentrated sulfuric acid.. The chemistry of life as we know it wouldn't work in a place like the huge Saturn moon Titan ...

If we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.

Direct sulfuric acid formation from the gas-phase oxidation of reduced-sulfur compounds. Nature Communications , 2023; 14 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40586-2 Cite This Page : ...

An MIT team placed all 20 'biogenic' amino acids – chemicals that are essential to all life as we know it – into vials of sulfuric acid at concentrations of 81-98%, levels they’d face in ...