On October 14, 2025, in Shaanxi, China. @Zhānghóngjūnshared a video of a fun experiment in science class. In the video, a group of students experienced the thrill of science firsthand. Guided by their ...

A little-known microbe in your gut produces methane and may help your body extract more calories from food, according to a study led b. Deep inside your gut lives a vast community of microbes, and ...

Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries. Known by many names, the global phenomenon has a spine-tingling history. But its origins could ...

Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, breaking the “like dissolves like” rule of chemistry. Under ultra-cold ...

For centuries, stories about will-o’-the-wisps have captured the popular imagination. Countless tales have been told to explain the mysterious lights seen hovering above marshes, swamps and bogs, with ...

Norwegian researchers used thin layers of microbes in a reactor to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into pipeline grade methane.

For decades, chemistry students have learned a simple truth: polar and nonpolar substances don’t mix. Water and oil stay apart.

Wastewater plants emit about twice as much greenhouse gas as previously believed, according to Princeton engineers who used a mobile lab to check plants across the country.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery that challenges one of the basic rules of chemistry and provides new knowledge ...

Chemists have discovered tiny zaps of electricity moving between “swamp-gas” bubbles. Could they ignite methane gas to glow as dancing blue flames?