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

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

Researchers from Stanford University believe their new theory debunks the idea that a massive lightning strike in our planet's early oceans provided the spark for living molecules to form.

Miller and Urey combined ammonia (NH3), methane (CH4), hydrogen (H2 ... with carbon-nitrogen bonds. These included the amino acid glycine and uracil, a nucleotide base in RNA.

A new study suggests that microscopic lightning bolts—called microlightning—within water droplets may have helped forge the ...

Living cells are bustling with molecular machines that constantly process energy, matter, and information. Among these ...