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 ...

Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.

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

Developing economies in Asia-Pacific, including China and India, are emerging as significant growth markets due to increasing ...

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Previous research has primarily focused on the impact of hydrogen bonding interactions in hybrid perovskites on the material's photophysical properties.” said Guanjun Xiao, who led the research. “The ...

If venusian clouds contain life, it will be very different than what we know. But terrestrial analogs might still give us ...

Scientists have uncovered that iron oxides, previously thought to trap phosphorus, actually help convert it into a ...

A new study overturns assumptions about how phosphorus becomes available in soils and sediments for plant growth.

An international research project, led by The University of Warwick and the University of Lille, has used nanotube compression to transform the underlying chemistry and physics of a compound, creating ...

Our son had some of the symptoms of appendicitis. His lower right side was aching, and he was throwing up. At the emergency ...