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

Instead, it may have started with tiny “micro lightning” sparks generated between water droplets from crashing waves or waterfalls. This fascinating new perspective comes from Stanford University ...

Research suggests that microlightning from water droplets, rather than large lightning strikes, may have triggered life’s ...