The ocean serves as Earth's largest dynamic carbon sink, absorbing 400 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO₂) annually through ...

A growing body of research suggests that cosmic dust, originating from asteroid collisions and comet disintegration, may have played a crucial role in sparking the formation of life ... sulfur—crucial ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

Researchers from the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology (APM) of the Chinese Academy of ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early Earth. Instead of requiring high temperatures or complex catalysts, this ...

LMU researchers have demonstrated a possible mechanism for metabolic processes without cell membranes in water-filled pores.

When the reaction takes place in optimal conditions, two nitrogen atoms and three water molecules form two ammonia molecules with only oxygen left over. ©2025 Nishibayashi et al. CC-BY-ND ...

There’s no intelligent design, no divine breath of life, and no fundamental reaction either,” says García Ruiz, a geologist from the Donostia International Physics Center. In February 1953, a ...

But they have shrunk by more than 40 percent since 1968, uncovering rocks that, when exposed to the elements, can trigger chemical reactions that leach toxic metals into the water and turn it acidic.

Water bubbles formed at the nanometric scale have just been observed for the first time. This discovery could revolutionize the way water is produced in extreme environments. A team of researchers ...

Researchers now understand how Palladium catalyzes the gaseous reaction to generate water. They studied reactions at the nanoscale, uncovering the mechanisms involved and discovering new methods to ...