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

Four billion years ago, Earth was a chaotic, lifeless world — a fiery hell with spewing volcanoes and meteorite impacts ...

In advancing sustainable energy solutions, an international collaborative team of scientists has achieved a significant milestone in low-carbon chemical conversion. In their recent publication in ...

In advancing sustainable energy solutions, an international collaborative team of scientists has achieved a significant ...

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

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 ...

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

methane can play a critical role in a carbon neutral world, says Hiroyuki Takano from Kanadevia’s Technical Research Institute. “You can start the reaction under ambient pressure and at a ...

Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets!

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