Dr. Frankenstein might not have needed a lightning bolt to bring his monster to life after all. A new study from Stanford ...

The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...

T here are multiple theories that explain the origin of life on Earth, but one of the most disputed ones was proposed in 1953 when two scientists named Stanley Miller and Harold U ...

Life's building blocks may not have been crafted in the lightning flashes of a tempest, a new study suggests, so much as in ...

New microlightning research out of Stanford adds a "striking" twist to an existing theory about how life may have originated ...

A great example is this recent reboot of the 1952 Miller-Urey “primordial soup” experiment which ended up with some fascinating results. At the heart of the Miller-Urey experiment was a ...

Instead, it may have started with tiny “micro lightning” sparks generated between water droplets from crashing waves or waterfalls. This fascinating new perspective comes from Stanford University ...

New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.

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

A Stanford study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning ...