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

TYLER, Texas — Lightning forms due to a difference in charges. Negative charges accumulates at the bottom of the storm cloud.

“Lightning, or in this case ... Richard Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science and professor of chemistry at Stanford University in California. Zare and his colleagues ...

New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.