Snow is made up of trillions of tiny ice crystals to make snowflakes, with not one alike. Here's how they form.

Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame ...

A physicist explains how atoms arrange themselves into molecules – and how scientists are able to image these tiny bits of ...

Researchers developed an artificial gill for ocean gliders, using hydrogen fuel to improve sustainability and extend mission ...

The goal for Climate Impulse is to take off unassisted, fly some 40,000 kilometers (about 25,000 miles) around Earth along ...

Water has a higher specific heat capacity than land. That’s due to water’s chemical makeup: H₂O or two hydrogen atoms bonded with a singular oxygen atom. Hydrogen bonds are extremely strong and ...

Russia's state-owned Rosatom announced a prototype plasma engine which could speed up travel to other planets.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the ... It is the third most abundant element on the Earth's surface after oxygen and silicon. And the good news is that it has the potential to replace ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

In this case, the chemical bonds of water begin to weaken ... the mechanism that ultimately breaks down the water into oxygen and hydrogen. This discovery is at the surface chemistry level ...

Hydrogen production primarily uses electrolysis, a process in which an electric current passes through water to separate hydrogen from oxygen ... models such as green bonds which are issued ...

Scientists have long sought to understand the exact mechanism behind water splitting by carbon nitride catalysts. For the first time, Dr. Paolo Giusto and his team captured the step-by-step ...