Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Microlightning” exchanges among water droplets could have sparked the building blocks of life on ancient Earth, new research ...

A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the very first amino acids on Earth. The research revives and reimagines one of ...

In a small lab at Penn State University, lightning may be happening on a scale smaller than a deck of cards. Victor Pasko, a ...

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