Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie.

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 ...

Life on Earth may not have begun with a big lightning strike in the ocean, as scientists once thought. Instead, tiny electric sparks from crashing waves and waterfalls—called “microlightning”—might ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets!

The method involves generating and merging water waves to create complex surface patterns, such as twisting loops and swirling vortices. Laboratory experiments showed that these patterns can pull in ...

The idea was inspired by earlier work involving light that was conducted by Shen Yijie. A co-lead on the new project, Yijie ...