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

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

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

While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

According to Stanford University chemist Richard Zare and his colleagues, small electrical charges built up in water droplets and unleashed tiny bursts of electricity may have been enough to power ...

Editor's Note: The year 1996 was a big one for Richard Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University. In May, he was elected chairman of the National Science Board ...

When two differently charged water droplets come into proximity, they exchange little sparks of energy: what senior author Richard Zare dubbed “microlightning.” The team photographed the ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

and we propose that this is a new mechanism for the prebiotic synthesis of molecules that constitute the building blocks of life," said senior author Richard Zare, the Marguerite Blake Wilbur ...

“We propose that this is a new mechanism for the prebiotic synthesis of molecules that constitute the building blocks of life,” study author Richard Zare from Stanford University sai ...