The term greenhouse gas often brings carbon dioxide (CO2) to mind, and rightly so, as it is a key contributor to rising ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

A 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 may have ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from ...

A research team, led by Professor Seungho Cho in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has unveiled a ...

Hydrogen from geological formations makes up about 10% of the flammable gases that form the Yanartaş flames near Cirali, ...

Tiny ‘microlightning’ flashes inside water droplets may have sparked life on Earth - Study says tiny electric discharges ...

Straightforward skeletal editing chemistry now enables the direct insertion of nitrogen into carbon–carbon double bonds.