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

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

The video explains the unique properties of water (H2O) compared to other substances like benzene, particularly focusing on density, expansion, and contraction with temperature changes. Ice floats on ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Two decades on from the first reported covalent organic frameworks, Nina Notman investigates what their future holds ...

A new electrochemical technique published in the journal Nature Catalysis now proposes to separate urea from urine in its ...

Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, pecking at ...

Forever chemicals in North Carolina’s water systems could be filtered out before human consumption using innovative ...