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 ...

The ammonia electrooxidation reaction (AOR) has attracted significant attention for both wastewater treatment ... oxidation of ammonia into nitrate. The formation of isolated OH/O vacancies on NiOOH ...

A research team, led by Professor Seungho Cho in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has unveiled a ...

Tiny ‘microlightning’ flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth - Study says tiny electric discharges ...

Life's building blocks may not have been crafted in the lightning flashes of a tempest, a new study suggests, so much as in ...

Nitrogen gas (N2) is one of the most abundant yet highly stable gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Its N≡N triple bond has an extremely high bond dissociation energy (~940.95 kJ mol⁻¹), making its ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

Growth occurred on primary testing of 93 out of 100 strains of aerobic Gram-negative bacteria at pH 5, and 48 out of 50 strains of Esch. coli at pH 4·6. At low pH reduction in the count of organisms ...

and ammonia gases, which are all thought to be present on early Earth. This resulted in the formation of organic molecules with carbon-nitrogen bonds including hydrogen cyanide, the amino acid ...