Now, new research published March 14 in the journal Science Advances suggests that fizzes of barely visible “microlightning,” ...

But building new molecules requires energy. Zare and his colleagues say that the energy required could have come from ...

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

Now, new research published March 14 in the journal Science Advances suggests that fizzes of barely visible “microlightning,” generated between charged droplets of water mist, could have been ...

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 new study from Stanford suggests that life might have been kickstarted by constant zaps from “microlightning” between water droplets. The most profound missing link in the evolutionary tree ...

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

The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have helped create the building blocks necessary for early life on the planet. Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into ...

Life may have first emerged on Earth after crashing waterfalls or breaking waves sparked tiny “microlightning” discharges in water droplets, according to a new study. The research, published in the ...