BASF is the world’s largest chemical producer by volume. Of its six reportable segments, four represent the company’s core businesses and rely on its Verbund strategy. That strategy seeks to produce ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

New research shows how cell-like vesicles could form in Titan’s methane lakes, hinting at possible steps toward life - without water.

The hydrocarbon lakes of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, may host chemical mechanisms capable of forming structures resembling primitive cells. This discovery, resulting from NASA research, ...

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

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These lakes, filled with liquid methane and ethane, provide a unique environment where such structures—vital for forming protocells that support chemical reactions—could emerge on their own ...

Threads or ropes can easily be used for braiding, knotting, and weaving. In chemistry, however, processing molecular strands ...

Researchers at Kumamoto University and Nagoya University have developed a new class of two-dimensional (2D) metal-organic ...

The latest knitting craze is nanoscopic. Powered by light and heat, a tool called a molecular motor can twist strings of ...

Europe's petrochemical industry is unravelling under a wave of plant closures after years of losses and a rapid expansion of global capacity led by China.