29 April 2020
Scientists discover ancient nitrogen-bearing organic material in martian meteorite
...content - none of which showed signs of detectable nitrogen. After all of the careful contamination checks, the...scientist Atsuko Kobayashi at ELSI also determined the contribution of nitrogen in the form of nitrate was insignificant, suggesting the ...
June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
.... In agreement with Cassini-Huygens 36Ar/N measurements, recent theories predict a warm Titan interior responsible for outgassing nitrogen and other organics, that formed about 50 percent of today’s atmosphere from within about 300 km of the ice...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
... instrument (which also has additional spectral bands) - have been selected to monitor key tropospheric constituents (such as nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, ozone, etc) that are important products for the monitoring...
01 November 2021
Curiosity finds organic molecules in Mars sand dune
... phosphorus, say the team, as such phosphoric acid is possibly the result of chemical weathering of rocks. Several nitrogen-bearing molecules were also detected, including, amongst other things, HCN (hydrogen cyanide); isocyanate - a group of organic...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... since 1997, superconductors have been discovered with critical temperatures above 77 K, the boiling point of liquid Nitrogen. Such superconductors are termed ‘high-temperature superconductors’ (HTS), and their ability to operate at such temperatures...
09 June 2017
Key ingredients to life found around Sun-like stars
...-type protostars. This chemical building block of life is methyl isocyanate, a complex organic molecule containing carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the chemical configuration CH3NCO. Intriguingly, this is not the first complex molecule...
