Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical phenomenon could have sparked the chemistry of life ...

For professor of chemistry and physics Richard Zare, the goal for CHEM 29N: Chemistry in the Kitchen is not to make students ...

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Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

The transplutonium actinides are highly radioactive and rare, making them difficult to study. To examine their chemical ...

Scientists have developed a new chemical method that could make it easier, safer and more environmentally friendly to create ...

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 ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking ...

Artificial photosynthesis holds the key to cleaner energy and carbon capture, but replicating nature’s process is no easy ...

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally ...