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

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

MXenes are 2D materials that improve water-splitting efficiency for hydrogen production. Learn about their properties and ...

For decades, researchers have explored how electrons behave in quantum materials. Under certain conditions, electrons ...

A new study provides fresh insight into traditional acid-base chemistry by revealing that the mutual neutralization of isolated hydronium (H₃O⁺) and hydroxide (OH⁻) ions is driven by electron transfer ...

Pete Wilda, a Fairbanks reader of this column, wanted to know how the snow here can bend off railings and loop from power ...

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

Abstract Proton tunneling through a hydrogen bond is a significant quantum phenomenon in proton-mediated processes. Hydrogen ...

This study provides compelling evidence that kinesin's stepping mechanism is governed by strain-induced conformational changes in its nucleotide-binding pockets. Using pre-steady state kinetics and ...

I’d just washed my hair using a bond-repairing ... chains together and help provide strength,” Bell says. Unlike hydrogen or ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have shed light on the structure of supercritical water. In this state, which exists at extreme ...

You can interrogate Fido about who sat on the couch all you want, but dogs don't speak Human! Instead, use this reusable ...