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

New microlightning research out of Stanford adds a "striking" twist to an existing theory about how life may have originated ...

"Ammonia is often considered the chemical that ... "Our process only requires air and water, and can be powered by renewable electricity." Nature has its own way of producing fertilizer.

Life on Earth may not have begun with a big lightning strike in the ocean, as scientists once thought. Instead, tiny electric sparks from crashing waves and waterfalls—called “microlightning”—might ...