The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves ...

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

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves.

The NASA astronaut posted a video illustrating how charged water droplets circle a Teflon knitting ... was to Earth viewers.

Life may have first emerged on Earth after crashing waterfalls or breaking waves sparked tiny “microlightning” discharges in water droplets, according to a new study. The research, published ...