The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ...

Water spray, however, would have been more common than lightning. A more likely scenario is that mist-generated microlightning constantly zapped amino acids into existence from pools and puddles ...

A new study adds another angle to the much-disputed Miller-Urey hypothesis, which argues that life on the planet emerged from ...

"One minute everything was fine and then just like lightning striking ... Last year, a whale leapt out of the water off the coast of New Hampshire, capsizing a boat and sending two fishermen ...

Lightning flashes over the Mediterranean Sea (AFP via Getty ... Their study shows that larger water droplets often carry positive charges and smaller ones negative. When such oppositely charged ...