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

T here are multiple theories that explain the origin of life on Earth, but one of the most disputed ones was proposed in 1953 ...

Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical phenomenon could have sparked the chemistry of life ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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