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Chimneys of iron hydroxide (left) and iron sulphide (right) precipitate out of solution when alkaline fluids feed into these mimics of early Earth oceans

Earth

Genesis in a jar: How chemical gardens may lead us to alien life

Experiments are under way to mimic possible life-forming processes at alkaline vents on the sea floor, and perhaps elsewhere in the solar system

The Rio Olympic pools - one is green, one is blue

Humans

Green Olympic pool: perfect storm of sun, heat and still water?

Potassium reacting violently in water

Physics

Watch a classic chemistry lab explosion tamed to run in slow-mo

Artists impression of superatoms

Physics

First superatom molecules pave way for new breed of electronics

A landscape with a distant person looking up at the night sky where the Milky Way is visible

Space

First mirror-image molecule found in interstellar space

the power station in iceland where the project is being carried out.

Earth

CO2 injected deep underground turns to rock 鈥� and stays there

Personal silhouetted against big display of periodic table

Physics

Four new element names to be added to the periodic table

A person noses a glass of white wine

Life

Synthetic wine made without grapes claims to mimic fine vintages

Abstract picture of ice crystals

Life

Missing building block of life could be made on ice in space

hydrophobic water droplet

Physics

Nano coating lets you mould and slice liquid just like Play-Doh

Water drops covered in a thin layer of silica can be shaped like Play-Doh and remain transparent, raising the prospect of new types of lens

Physics

Periodic Tales: all the elements of a splendid failure

Earth

Modern-day alchemy is putting the periodic table under pressure

Health

Alchemy machine: Conjuring new drugs at the click of a mouse

Earth

Elemental risk: Securing the raw stuff of modern life