The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

A new study adds another angle to the much-disputed Miller-Urey hypothesis, which argues that life on the planet emerged from ...

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

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on ...

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

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

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

Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...

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

It’s a project more than 20 years in the making. Thanks to community and nonprofit donations, the Wilmington Area Softball Association will build a second softball field on the Hoyt Sports Complex at ...