Before sunlight ever reached the planet, another force may have sparked life—electricity. Deep beneath the ocean floor, ...

Microbiologists discover bacteria that eliminate toxic sulfide and use iron minerals to grow. An international group of ...

Most people release about a litre of gas per day and half of that is hydrogen. But hydrogen is more than just the gas behind ...

A new experiment reveals how Earth's earliest life may have sparked from nothing but deep-sea heat, metal, and a whisper of ...

Scientists discover a “runaway bulldozer” in ant DNA that silences smell genes, keeping chemical communication - and colony ...

Using an enzyme called terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase, the team strung together long chains of DNA in the presence of ...

Before life evolved nerves and humans built electric circuits, motion arose with chemistry. In the earliest organisms, waves ...

Farts are causing a stink in the research world, but in a positive way. Melbourne scientists have revealed how hydrogen is made and used in the human gut. Though infamous for making farts ignite, ...

The energy-efficient method breaks down Teflon into harmless carbon and sodium fluoride, which can be used directly, without ...

The incident sparked a scientific hunch: perhaps the lizards, which happen to be residents of particularly fire-prone regions ...