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

Hydrogen from geological formations makes up about 10% of the flammable gases that form the Yanartaş flames near Cirali, ...

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

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

Iron can form compounds with helium at pressures as low as 5GPa – about 50,000 atmospheres – researchers in Japan report.

Physicists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have synthesized very pure superconducting materials and redefined ...

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

A team has shown that artificial photosynthesis is feasible using organic materials. Using the technique, they successfully synthesized useful organic compounds, including pharmaceutical materials, ...

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 ...

The $16 million project is scheduled to start later this year, pending approval from the Colorado Department of Public Health ...

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