A team at Northwestern University has figured out how to turn methane into methanol in a single step, at room temperature, ...

Enhancing with argon. To further enhance the process, the team diluted methane with argon, which is typically an inert noble ...

Tiny bolts of plasma, flickering inside a submerged glass tube, may have opened a new route for turning methane into liquid ...

By harnessing tiny bursts of plasma — or mini “lightning bolts” — in glass tubes submerged in water, the researchers ...

On a calm day, a light breeze might barely ripple the surface of a lake on Earth. But on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, a ...

The team from Northwestern University has successfully converted methane directly into methanol without high heat and ...

Hydrogen is a clean-burning gas that could help to tackle climate change by reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. But ...

The findings potentially resolve a long-standing issue with methanol conversion, which has tended to be clunky, inefficient, ...

Lightning in a bottle, in a literal sense, may be the key to new, clean energy by reducing carbon emissions in methanol ...

Methanol production consumes enormous amounts of energy and generates significant carbon dioxide. New process uses tiny ...

Gut bacteria normally generate both hydrogen and methane, which are both combustible in air. Some people's farts lack methane though, and a subset of people (such as those with irritable bowel ...

On March 16, 1926, American physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first successful liquid-fueled rocket from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket was small, only about 10 feet long, ...