What if the toughest part of wood could be turned into highly useful chemicals ...
A groundbreaking experiment revives interest in forgotten scientists Krishna Bahadur and S. Ranganayaki, exploring life's ...
A growing body of peer-reviewed research is showing that electricity can replace heat and fossil-derived hydrogen to crack ...
Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little ...
A chemical signature in a lunar rock offers new insights into what early oxygen conditions were like on the Moon.
Found in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, the ancient star’s unusual chemistry indicates it formed from gas enriched by a single ...
The question of how life began has traditionally been left to myth, philosophy, or religious faith, writes Dr James Williams.
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global temperatures. But it doesn't ...
Life on Earth may have origins from far, far away. Scientists have found a full set of life-building molecules in a nearly ...