A comet born around another star is carrying methane, and the chemical details of that methane are unlike anything ...

The quantum rules shaping molecular collisions are now coming into focus, offering fresh insights for chemistry and materials science. When molecules collide with surfaces, a complex exchange of ...

Manganese dioxide can convert amino acids into hydrogen cyanide (HCN) without requiring methane, a finding that solves a long ...

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global temperatures. But it doesn’t linger in the atmosphere for long thanks to molecules called hydroxyl ...

Six Northwestern researchers published a paper April 15 detailing how plasma can be used in a reaction to convert methane to ...

They tuned methane molecules to specific quantum states, scattered them off a gold (Au) surface, and measured their states after the collision. The results, published in Science, revealed clear ...

Methanol is a high-demand industrial chemical used to make many products people use every day as fuel for ships and ...

Microbial methane is escaping from oil and gas wells that are no longer in use at rates approximately 1,000 times higher than ...

Taking a leaf out of the book of plants, scientists have used a photosynthesis blueprint to harness the power of sunlight and turn two of the most destructive greenhouse gases into useful, prized ...