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

A Stanford study shows that tiny electrical charges in water droplets caused reactions that developed organic matter from ...

The Miller-Urey experiment, as it is now known, supported the scientific theory of abiogenesis: that life could emerge from nonliving molecules. For the new study, scientists revisited the 1953 ...

A great example is this recent reboot of the 1952 Miller-Urey “primordial soup” experiment which ended up with some fascinating results. At the heart of the Miller-Urey experiment was a ...

A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the ...

During the 1993 meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life in Barcelona, Spain, a local newspaper proclaimed the attendance of el padre de la química prebiòtica ...

New microlightning research out of Stanford adds a "striking" twist to an existing theory about how life may have originated ...

Researchers demonstrated that the electricity caused by splashing water would have been enough to form organic molecules in early Earth. © wirestock via Freepik ...