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

Professor Dayne Swearer found that bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures.

A laboratory setup shows yellowish and bluish light from two lamps shining on a metallic reactor. Deep-ultraviolet, infrared, and visible light shine on carbon dioxide and methane in a reactor, ...

Converting methane, the primary component of natural gas, into higher alkanes and hydrogen, could be highly advantageous.

Because methane has around 80 times the warming potential of CO2 over a 20-year period, it has been a major focus for climate ...