A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...

Scientists have achieved the first real-time visualization of how 'excited-state aromaticity' emerges within just hundreds of femtoseconds and then triggers a molecule to change from bent to planar ...

Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.

Replicating the natural process plants use to create their own food from sun and water could ease some environmental issues.

Perotto and colleagues took advantage of the thiol groups on the cysteine amino acids in keratin. They thought they could ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets! Scientists found that when mist and sprays collide, they generate microlightning ...

Biomolecular condensates are shifting blobs in our cells that organize cellular matter. They are distinct molecular ...

In a ceremony held last month, the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was awarded to Wesley Sundquist, PhD, Leo T. and Barbara K ...

In their view, inorganic molecules might have reacted due to energy from the Sun or lightning strikes to form life’s building ...

Laihui Xiao, the first author of the study, comments, "Our flash-freezing strategy is a key innovation that allows us to ...

With artificial photosynthesis, mankind could utilise solar energy to bind carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen. Chemists from Würzburg and Seoul have taken this one step further: They have synthesised ...