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  • Thesis |

    Excited by the prospect of future missions to the Jupiter system, Bruce Gibb explores the chemistry of Jupiter’s moons and wonders whether there could be life on Europa.

    • Bruce C. Gibb

  • Editorial |

    There are many unanswered questions regarding how the biomolecules and biomechanical processes that define life came to be. A collection of Articles in this issue show how intermediates in RNA synthesis might have formed and how the initiation and evolution of RNA replication might have occurred.

  • Thesis |

    In the second of two essays looking at organic chemistry that can be found in the Solar System, Bruce C. Gibb focuses on the gas and ice giants as well as their satellites — concluding the tour on Saturn's fascinating moon Titan.

    • Bruce C. Gibb

  • Article |

    Several solutions to the ‘missing xenon’ problem have been proposed that involve the selective sorption of Xe in minerals found in the Earth. It is now shown that a zeolite, Ag-natrolite, absorbs and retains 28 wt% Xe at 1.7 GPa and 250 °C, conditions found in subsurface Earth, through expulsion of metallic Ag(0).

    • Donghoon Seoung
    • , Yongmoon Lee
    •  & Yongjae Lee

  • Article |

    Studies of the Earth's atmosphere have shown that more than 90% of xenon is depleted — the so-called missing Xe paradox. Now a theoretical study shows that Xe and Fe/Ni can form inter-metallic compounds of XeFe3 and XeNi3 under conditions found in the Earth's inner core, and could provide a solution to the puzzle.

    • Li Zhu
    • , Hanyu Liu
    •  & Yanming Ma

  • In Your Element |

    Beginning with its origins as the archetypal and eponymously elusive rare-earth element, Dante Gatteschi explains why dysprosium and other lanthanides have cornered the market in molecular magnetism.

    • Dante Gatteschi

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