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

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

In a nutshell Water droplets create “microlightning” when they split, producing electrical discharges without any external ...

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

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

A new study from Stanford suggests that life on Earth might have been kickstarted by constant zaps from “microlightning” between water droplets.