The discovery of organic-carbon-bearing mudstones within the Bright Angel formation raises intriguing questions about Mars' habitability. The organic matter detected in these mudstones appears to have engaged in post-depositional redox reactions, contributing to the observed mineralogy. Key findings include:

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found yet more chemical signatures that could be associated with ancient Red Planet life — but we need to examine them here on Earth to fully understand them.

The Perseverance rover from NASA has discovered potential ancient Martian microbial life chemical signatures in the Bright Angel formation within Jezero Crater on Mars. The findings, involving Dr. Michael Tice,

Life is complicated, and not just in a philosophical sense. But one simple thing we know about life is that it requires energy, and to get that energy it needs certain fundamental elements. A new paper published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics by Giovanni Covone and Donato Giovannelli from the University of Naples discusses how we might use that constraint to narrow our search for stars and planets that could potentially harbor life.

Scientists from Skoltech, Harbin Institute of Technology, and MIPT have conducted a study on the operation of an energy storage system based on a vanadium redox flow battery across an extended range of ambient temperatures.

This study achieved the controllable generation of the Z phase in P2-type layered oxides through the Al substitution strategy, revealing the mechanism by which flexible Al-O bonds suppress irreversible phase transitions and stabilize local structures.