Lots of lightning, but no severe weather. The Severe Thunderstorm Watch is still in place until 9pm.Update 6:35pmThe strong ...

Severe weather could knock Oregon and Washington with winds over 60 miles per hour and hail larger than golf balls.

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

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

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 ...

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 ...

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.