New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

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

Water spray, however, would have been more common than lightning. A more likely scenario is that mist-generated microlightning constantly zapped amino acids into existence from pools and puddles ...

A Stanford study shows that tiny electrical charges in water droplets caused reactions that developed organic matter from inorganic materials.

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic molecules by applying an electrical current to a mixture of water and Earth’s ...

A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the ...

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

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There was a storm brewing on land, but the sun was still shining over the water, so they figured they were safe—when, suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck out from the blue sky and knocked one ...