Caltech researchers have identified a novel chemical reaction that could explain the formation of the building blocks of DNA ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Colorado's JILA, National Institute of Science and Technology, have conducted an experiment to produce benzene the way theories have predicted it is produced in ...

When G. Stephen Kocheril started as a research associate at Jila, his first project was to experimentally test a decades-old theoretical reaction pathway for interstellar benzene formation. He was ...

Space is famously empty. The cold vacuum of space—or more specifically, the interstellar medium—lacks much of anything, including the air needed to conduct sound. But it isn’t quite completely empty.

Only nine percent of 199 beverage samples had benzene levels above the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency limit of 5 parts per billion (ppb) for benzene in drinking water, according to a new study.

Benzene is one of the simplest and more stable aromatic ring molecules. It has been considered as a prototype for the study of chemical reactions involving biomolecules (pyridine 1, carbamates 2), a ...