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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

To make ammonia takes hydrogen and nitrogen. Most commercial hydrogen is made by reacting methane which releases carbon as a byproduct. However, hydrogen can be split from water using green energy ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

A Stanford 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 ...

A new study adds another angle to the much-disputed Miller-Urey hypothesis, which argues that life on the planet emerged from ...

A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause ... lightning striking into the ocean and interacting with early planet gases like methane, ammonia, and hydrogen could create ...