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 study has unveiled the potential of hydrogen-bonding crosslinked supramolecular polymer materials derived from N-acryloyl glycinamide (NAGA).

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 ...

When they weave their webs, spiders pull their silk threads. New simulations show stretching during spinning causes the protein chains within the fibers to align and the number of hydrogen bonds ...

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

Simulations reveal how aged nanoplastics form stable aggregates with organic matter, influencing their transport in aquatic ...