A new study suggests that the first water molecules in the universe may have formed far earlier than previously assumed ...

New microlightning research out of Stanford adds a "striking" twist to an existing theory about how life may have originated ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

A study in Engineering reveals a new adsorbent made by combining cationic surfactants with montmorillonite. This adsorbent ...

Supercritical water, a mysterious state where water behaves like both a liquid and gas, has long puzzled scientists.

A research team led by Professor Hyung-Joon Shin from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has ...

An atom is so small that a single drop of water contains more than a billion atoms. Although tiny, atoms are mostly empty space. The simplified model of the atom is that of a cloud of negative ...

Hydrophobic deep eutectic solvents have proven useful in extracting non-polar target compounds, though researchers have shown there is room for further development.

Cargo transport is responsible for an enormous carbon footprint. Between 2010 and 2018, the transport sector generated about ...

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

Popescu adds that hydrogen bonds are also the weakest bonds in the hair—and the most abundant. “You don’t need to do anything ...

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