You'll not believe what happens when you mix sugar and sulfuric acid together I toured the White House to see Melania Trump's Christmas decorations. The East Wing is no more, but the display was still ...

The Kilauea volcano, in Hawaii, has been acting up lately, and all kinds of nasty stuff is pouring out of it. But perhaps the ...

Venus may be a hellscape by our standards, but there’s a chance that some forms of life could evolve there. A new MIT study has now found that the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in ...

Our nearest planetary neighbor may be more friendly to life than we previously thought. Venus has long been assumed to be uninhabitable: its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere is swirling with yellow ...

Molecules released by trees can seed clouds, two experiments have revealed. The findings, published on May 25 in Nature and Science, run contrary to an assumption that the pollutant sulphuric acid is ...

Researchers are reporting the first results of CERN's CLOUD experiment, designed to study the effect of cosmic rays on the formation of atmospheric aerosols -- tiny liquid or solid particles suspended ...

Here’s a terrifying and fascinating chemical reaction to start your Monday right. In a slow-motion video, sulfuric acid rips apart a sponge. We’ll let you admire the show, and explain what’s happening ...

Measurements in a forest reveal a previously unknown atmospheric oxidant that acts as a source of sulphuric acid — one of the main precursors for the formation and growth of aerosol particles and ...