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

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

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

Researchers extract plant residues from ancient bedrock metates, revealing insights into early diets and traditional plant ...

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

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 ...

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

Four billion years ago, Earth was a chaotic, lifeless world — a fiery hell with spewing volcanoes and meteorite impacts ...

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

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 ...

Narcisse, a town in Canada, witnesses the annual migration of over 75,000 Eastern Garter Snakes each spring, creating a ...

a thin rime of fossilized bacteria inside crevices in rocks where a lucky cyanobacterium had taken shelter and multiplied. But Earth is made up of rigid crustal plates that jostle about ...