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

Rising carbon dioxide boosts plant growth but reduces key nutrients, weakening global food quality and crop nutrition.

Biology might ultimately provide a solution, however. Researchers have identified bacteria that evolved the ability to digest ...

Associate Professor Konstantinos Vogiatzis' lab in the Department of Chemistry is leveraging computational chemistry to ...

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Disruptions in amino acid and lipid metabolism may be biomarkers of tardive dyskinesia (TD), according to a study published ...

New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.