Plants and animals have many similarities when it comes to what they need to survive. Both need water and air. We often think of animals using oxygen and glucose for cellular respiration and producing ...

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...

A molecule common to Earth and usually associated with life has been detected in the depths of space by scientists. Carbonic acid (HOCOOH), which you may know as the chemical that makes your soda ...

IN connection with the investigation on the electric decomposition of carbonic-acid gas referred to in a previous communication to the Society, I was led to submit a mixture of hydrogen and ...

Researchers say the refreshing bite you get from an ice-cold beer or soda comes from a chemical reaction that's going on inside your mouth — a reaction that turns the beverage's carbon dioxide bubbles ...