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

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over how life began on Earth. Many have supported the idea that a powerful lightning ...

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

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets!

Life on Earth may not have begun with a big lightning strike in the ocean, as scientists once thought. Instead, tiny electric sparks from crashing waves and waterfalls—called “microlightning”—might ...

Instead, it may have started with tiny “micro lightning” sparks generated between water droplets from crashing waves or waterfalls. This fascinating new perspective comes from Stanford University ...

The research, conducted by scientists at Stanford University, demonstrates that when water droplets collide and form spray, ...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are critical drivers of aquatic biogeochemical processes, with dissolved organic matter (DOM) ...

Distillation relies on evaporation to purify water. Contaminated water is heated to form steam. Inorganic compounds and large non-volatile organic molecules do not evaporate with the water and are ...

As a result, it is extremely difficult for an organic glass to form, as ambient temperatures are rarely low enough for water — a key component of organic matter — to solidify. The only ...

A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...