A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

"When the weather turns cold, windy and snowy, many of us prefer to stay indoors and keep warm at home," Darci Webber writes.

Scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified a strain of bacteria that ...

The Jakarta administration has revived its OMC in a bid to combat heavy and extreme rainfall and prevent flooding, after it found that releasing salt into the skies above the city in December helped ...

A physicist explains how atoms arrange themselves into molecules – and how scientists are able to image these tiny bits of ...

The organization has released new guidelines to reduce the use of salt, which is at the root of a global health crisis.

Table salt – as well as the other types of salt – consists of a compound of sodium and chloride ions to make sodium chloride (NaCl if you like chemistry). The sodium in salt is where the ...

One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ultimately forming ...

Researchers have identified Dehalogenimonas strain W, a marine bacteria that breaks down toxic industrial pollutants in ...