Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

Learn more about how these experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary ...

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 ...

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

A new electrochemical technique published in the journal Nature Catalysis now proposes to separate urea from urine in its ...

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 ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from ...

Two decades on from the first reported covalent organic frameworks, Nina Notman investigates what their future holds ...

Machine learning system combines nanoforest humidity sensing with temperature data to recognize nine distinct behaviors from breathing patterns in real-time.

Spiders don’t just spin webs—they engineer them. By stretching their silk as they spin, spiders strengthen the fibers at the ...