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

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

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

Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets ...

New microlightning research out of Stanford adds a "striking" twist to an existing theory about how life may have originated ...

Researchers demonstrated that the electricity caused by splashing water would have been enough to form organic molecules in early Earth. © wirestock via Freepik ...

The Miller-Urey experiment, as it is now known, supported the scientific theory of abiogenesis: that life could emerge from nonliving molecules. For the new study, scientists revisited the 1953 ...