Researchers have developed innovative methods to control the ionization of atoms and molecules using specially structured light beams, challenging traditional limits. This breakthrough could lead to ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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