The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

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

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

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over how life began on Earth. Many have supported the idea that a powerful lightning ...

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

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

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

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.

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 ...

A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...