For centuries, scientists have puzzled over how life began on Earth. Many have supported the idea that a powerful lightning ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves, rushing ...

Very tiny droplets in sea spray can have a big impact on the atmosphere by helping seed clouds – and there is now a new way to explain how they form in such large numbers. Researchers have long known ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets from crashing waterfalls or breaking waves. New research ...