The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ...

In the reaction, the bonds in the methane and oxygen molecule come apart, the atoms rearrange and then re-bond to form water and carbon dioxide. The little number written at the lower right after an ...

Four billion years ago, Earth was a chaotic, lifeless world — a fiery hell with spewing volcanoes and meteorite impacts ...

For a start, the reaction isn’t very efficient. To make methane, hydrogen has to be produced via water electrolysis before being mixed with carbon dioxide, but combining these two processes ...

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 ...