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 ...

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

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

Proteins are long molecules that must fold into complex three-dimensional structures to perform their cellular functions.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

In this edition of “Rising High,” The Fly conducted an exclusive interview with Jared Stanley, Chief Executive Officer, and Joel Stanley, ...

The stability of interphases has been a challenge for battery chemistry developers, who have focused on small-molecule ...