Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

Life's building blocks may not have been crafted in the lightning flashes of a tempest, a new study suggests, so much as in ...

Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic molecules by applying an electrical current to a mixture of water and Earth’s ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

A chemical reaction involving tiny flashes of light in water droplets may have laid the foundation for life on Earth.

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves. New ...

Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical phenomenon could have sparked the chemistry of life ...