Research suggests that microlightning from water droplets, rather than large lightning strikes, may have triggered life’s ...

Life's building blocks may not have been crafted in the lightning flashes of a tempest, a new study suggests, so much as in the ceaseless glow of rolling ocean mists.

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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 ...

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

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Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets! Scientists found that when mist and sprays collide, they generate microlightning ...