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 ...

In this picture, the ripples in the water have frozen too. Icicles form when water droplets freeze as they flow downwards. More water droplets drip down and freeze on to the icicle. So the icicle ...

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 in the ...

Ripples. Water, Community and You, is a new exhibit at the Johnson County Museum, will be on display through Jan. 10. Courtesy photo A tower of 100 empty plastic gallon jugs might seem an unlikely ...

Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets of water spray. When triggered in a mixture of gases made to ...

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. New ...

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 ...