Aidan Brennan reports from a technical open day at Teagasc Grange organised by Goldcrop where visitors heard about new white ...

Scientists at the University of Michigan are developing ammonia as a zero-carbon fuel for vehicles, power plants. This ...

Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ago for life to ...

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

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 ...

The term greenhouse gas often brings carbon dioxide (CO2) to mind, and rightly so, as it is a key contributor to rising ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take ...

Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient ...

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

Interventions involving bacteria or fungi could help to sequester greenhouse gases, create more sustainable products and ...

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

Russia continues to supply key chemical components for the production of explosives, ordered by fertilizer companies EuroChem ...