(For all its mildness to amino acids and lipids, sulfuric acid will absolutely destroy sugars, which make up a lot of the scaffolding on which life is built.) Somewhere in the universe, sulfuric ...

Sulfuric acid is widely used, commercially available and can easily be combined with other chemicals to make explosives. The FBI did not provide additional details about what the attacker ...

So, if astrobiologists ever do find alien life with a weird chemistry that uses some liquid other than water, it's not likely to be methane, ammonia, or molten rock — but somewhere out there, alien ...