Mars reveals its oldest organic secrets
Nandkumar M. Kamat On April 21, 2026, a paper appeared in Nature Communications that deserved front-page treatment worldwide. It did not get it. Williams and 29 co-authors reported something extraordinary: more than 20 distinct organic molecules recovered from 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rock, by a chemical experiment performed not in any terrestrial laboratory, but 225 million kilometres []