Hundreds of regular patterns spontaneously emerge on a small germanium chip. A curiosity about tiny dots on a germanium wafer ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

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 ...

Electrochemical devices like batteries and fuel cells help power our modern lives. These devices traditionally contain a ...

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that can track chemical changes in molten salt in real ...

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

When a chemical reaction occurs, energy is transferred to or from the surroundings. There is usually a temperature change. For example, when a bonfire burns it transfers heat energy to the ...

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally ...

Key takeawaysCuriosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the ...

LIBS plasma of molten salt aerosols is formed from a sparging salt vessel. Credit: Zechariah Kitzhaber/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of ...

Learn more about how these experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary ...

The term greenhouse gas often brings carbon dioxide (CO2) to mind, and rightly so, as it is a key contributor to rising ...