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

In this study, published in the journal Small, researchers successfully demonstrated the bottom-up synthesis of colloidal ...

Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...

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

and general organic synthesis. A conventional method for generating organolithium compounds is done by reacting organohalide compounds, molecules containing a carbon–halogen bond, with lithium ...

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

Within the ribosome, the rRNA molecules direct the catalytic steps of protein synthesis — the stitching together of amino acids to make a protein molecule. In fact, rRNA is sometimes called a ...

Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical phenomenon could have sparked the chemistry of life ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

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 ...