For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, indicating that the conditions ...

Cyanide shows up in apple seeds, toxicology reports and now a planetary nursery encircling a young star. Cyanide compounds found in a planet-forming disk suggest that the rich brew of organic ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope array in Chile found significant concentrations of cyanides believed to be essential precursors of amino acids and other building blocks of ...

Bolstered by a flurry of recent discoveries, NASA scientists believe they could find evidence of alien life in the universe as early 2025. "I'm going to say we are going to have strong indications of ...

Cyanide is a highly lethal chemical that has been used in warfare and poisonings for centuries—that was the general consensus on the naturally occurring chemical up until spring 2025. But in a global ...

ACETONITRILE (methyl cyanide) has been identified in the body fluids of smokers while it is essentially absent in the body fluids of non-smokers 1. This work indicated that urine acetonitrile content ...

For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of complex organic molecules, the building blocks of life, in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, indicating that the conditions ...

The new ALMA observations reveal that the protoplanetary disc surrounding the young star MWC 480 [1] contains large amounts of methyl cyanide (CH3CN), a complex carbon-based molecule. There is enough ...