Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer with metal films led to the discovery of intricate spiral patterns etched ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

Life's building blocks may not have been crafted in the lightning flashes of a tempest, a new study suggests, so much as in the ceaseless glow of rolling ocean mists.

Clean water is essential for daily life and life science applications. Researchers use demineralization to maintain water quality, though traditional methods might not keep up with changing conditions ...

Astronauts Piers J. Sellers (left) and David A. Wolf in the midst of a pre-breathe exercise in preparation for a spacewalk. | ...

A differentiable variant of the Gillespie algorithm enables gradient-based optimization for stochastic chemical kinetics, facilitating efficient parameter estimation and the design of biochemical ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

Hydrogen peroxide is one of the world's top 100 industrial chemicals with a wide range of applications in the chemical, ...

The EU has recently approved the use of glyphosate for another decade. Bárbara Pinho examines the controversial pesticide's ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of beautiful spiral patterns etched on the surface of the semiconductor by a ...

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

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 ...