Every splash of water on Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical phenomenon could have sparked the chemistry of life itself. Stanford University researchers have ...

Asfur—now at the Ruppin Academic Center in Israel—had set out to investigate how lightning bolts affect water chemistry. Instead, he discovered that, in the lab at least, lightning-like ...

As massive bolts of lightning and energy crackled ... visible “microlightning,” generated between charged droplets of water mist, could have been potent enough to cook up amino acids from ...