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

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

New international pollution laws may have helped researchers discover an unexpected way to stop lightning strikes.

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

A newly unveiled astronaut photo shows a "gigantic jet" shooting upward from a thunderstorm above Louisiana in November 2024.

Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.

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 ...

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

After the regulations went into effect, lightning over shipping lanes dropped by half almost overnight, per newly published ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...