Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.

In a nutshell Water droplets create “microlightning” when they split, producing electrical discharges without any external ...

New international pollution laws may have helped researchers discover an unexpected way to stop lightning strikes.

A chemical reaction involving tiny flashes of light in water droplets may have laid the foundation for life on Earth.

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

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

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

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

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 ...

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

If you look at a map of lightning near the Port of Singapore, you'll notice an odd streak of intense lightning activity right ...