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

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For the new study, scientists revisited the 1953 experiments but directed their attention toward electrical activity on a smaller scale, said senior study author Dr. Richard Zare, the Marguerite ...

How animate life was formed from inanimate matter has always been a mystery, but scientists are closer to finding what may ...

The new study published in Science Advances, led by Dr. Richard Zare, a professor of chemistry at Stanford University, took a microscopic detour. Instead of focusing on large-scale lightning ...

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 ...

For the new study, scientists revisited the 1953 experiments but directed their attention toward electrical activity on a smaller scale, said senior study author Dr. Richard Zare, the Marguerite ...

Professor Richard Zare and three postdoctoral scholars have shown that micro-lightning between oppositely charged droplets in a primordial atmosphere, a much more frequent event, could produce the ...

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

Richard N. Zare, Ph.D., Stanford University Zare is going to receive the 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry “for fundamental studies of the dynamics of chemical reactions, including the ...

By Stephen Castle Reporting from London Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Atlantic, sharply criticized President Trump’s “erratic” trade policies on Wednesday, saying that they risk ...