Describes the Miller-Urey experiment and how it described the beginning of life on Earth.

The Importance of Carbon analyzes the importance of carbon by explaining how carbon is uniquely suited to form biological macromolecules

This video is a review of the topics covered in the Compounds in Chemistry series. In this series, we explored the fascinating world of compounds in chemistry. We learned about the formation of compounds from the bonding of atoms, and...

It explains elements and compounds that contain carbon, its cyclic movement and the relationship of increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the greenhouse effect

The Rocky Mountains supply water to more than 60 million homes in the West, but this crucial water shed is in peril due to a tiny insect called the mountain pine beetle. Scientists Reed Maxwell of Colorado School of Mines and John...

NASA’s Curiosity rover found organic compounds called thiophenes in soil samples that may have been produced by bacteria. <br/>

This video provides a brief overview of the early stages of life on Earth, highlighting the importance of organic compounds in the early oceans and the role they played in the development of the first living cells. It also discusses the...

Scientists say Ceres is an ocean world with brine under the surface after reviewing data from NASA’s Dawn orbiter, according to new studies published separately in Nature Astronomy and Geoscience.

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Dr. Aaron Burton and Dr. Marc Fries, Planetary Scientists, talk about searching for organic material in meteorites from around the solar system. They share what we're finding that helps us understand the fundamentals of life here on...

When Earth was just a baby, meteors and asteroids rained down, delivering all sorts of chemicals to our developing planet. These small objects could have delivered the chemicals needed to spark life on Earth for the first time.

In this video, we explore the significance of carbon compounds in our everyday lives. Carbon, a common element found in all living things, forms the basis of organic compounds. This video is part of the 10-part series, Compounds in...

The video is a lecture on organic chemistry, introducing key concepts such as hydrocarbons, functional groups, homologous series, and isomerism. The speaker explains how organic molecules can be represented in different ways, using...

There’s big news coming out of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite (SAM) on NASA’s Curiosity rover. For the first time, organic matter has definitively been detected on Mars. In addition to finding organic compounds in...

Danny Glavin talks about crushing meteorite samples, funding, and how having the right chemistry (no pun intended) is important in an astrobiology lab.<b<b<br/>r/>r/>

There are a number of substances that are vital to all living organisms. In this lecture, I talk about substances like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids, going into some detail about their structures and importance.

It explains sources of organic compounds and the unique characteristics of carbon atoms, namely tetracovalency, catenation and formation of strong bonds.

Vitamins are nutrients that our bodies need to survive, but that we cannot produce enough of on our own. Learn about different types of vitamins, where we get them, and how they are processed in the body. Plus, understand the difference...

An introduction to IR spectroscopy.

Oxygen is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. Oxygen is a necessary and abundant resource on Earth. Learn about the many things oxygen is used for - including keeping humans alive!

In this video, we explore the importance of carbon, an element that is present in everything from the air we breathe to the objects we use daily.

You must have wondered about it before, haven't you? How did life begin on earth? I mean the very first thing. The first unicellular organism, billions of years ago. Is it even possible? As it happens, our understanding of chemistry,...

In this video we will look at a commonly used separation technique, which you may have already met in Chemistry, and see how it is applied in the synthesis of organic compounds as done in the pharmaceutical industry. Ideally a chemical...

Everything you could want to know about Neptune's largest moon, Triton. NASA Voyager 2 images of Triton explained.