Astronomers have used a survey of the night sky to map the elements of life across the galaxy. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. The ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Using NASA’s Spitzer Telescope, an international research team has found evidence that some stars in the center of the Milky Way galaxy have both carbon and oxygen in the dust that ...

Researchers at Newcastle University have taken a step forward in our understanding of how the fundamental building blocks of life are put together. In a paper published today in Nature, the team led ...

Which elements are essential for human life? Here we make an element-by-element journey through the periodic table and attempt to assess whether elements are essential or not, and if they are, whether ...