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

New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Often known as the central science, it is a creative discipline chiefly concerned with atomic and molecular structure and its change, for instance through chemical reactions. Nanofiltration ...

Some sugar. A little bit of water. And finally we add the bicarbonate of soda and this is where the magic happens. And you get this chemical reaction and it looks like lava. So we’re gonna leave ...

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 ...

Hydrogen peroxide decomposes on its own into water and oxygen gas. This process is sped up by a catalyst. In this reaction, the catalyst is potassium permanganate, and the bubbles are full of oxygen ...