Research suggests that microlightning from water droplets, rather than large lightning strikes, may have triggered life’s ...

When exposed to high temperatures and pressure, water enters a state in which liquid and gas can no longer be distinguished. For a long time, there has been controversy about how this looks like on a ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have shed light on the structure of supercritical water. In this state, which ...

Researchers are using basalt spectra to study exoplanets and search for water with the James Webb Space Telescope. By ...

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

Observing Water Molecules Splitting in Real Time For the first time, scientists have directly observed water molecules as ...

Ranch dressing is actually a fifth state of matter known as soft matter. Soft matter can have properties of both liquids and solids, so materials scientists say it is viscoelastic – a combination of ...