Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

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 ...

Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.

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

Scientists from Stanford University created the microscopic electrical charges in a lab and mixed them with gases found in ...

Straightforward skeletal editing chemistry now enables the direct insertion of nitrogen into carbon–carbon double bonds.

Boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen: these four elements can form chemical triple bonds with each other due to their similar ...

German chemists have created the first-ever boron-carbon triple bond which opens new possibilities for molecular innovation.

Researchers have synthesised a triple bond between carbon and boron for the first time. This discovery could help chemists ...

Scientists in Germany have achieved something never seen before: creating a stable boron-carbon triple bond. While triple ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

Boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen: these four elements can form chemical triple bonds with each other due to their similar ...