A crackdown on sulfur in ship fuel is linked to a steep drop in thunderclouds in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

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

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

The study suggests that even the faintest hint of penguin droppings in the water is enough to prompt krill into escape ...

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

Instead, it may have started with tiny “micro lightning” sparks generated between water droplets from crashing waves or waterfalls. This fascinating new perspective comes from Stanford University ...

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

Life on Earth may not have begun with a big lightning strike in the ocean, as scientists once thought. Instead, tiny electric sparks from crashing waves and waterfalls—called “microlightning”—might ...

After the regulations went into effect, lightning over shipping lanes dropped by half almost overnight, per newly published ...

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 ...