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

Scientists at Lab are unraveling the mysteries of Bennu, a 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid, using cutting-edge technology. The ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

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

Addressing climate change, forest regeneration sequesters carbon, restores ecosystems, and boosts biodiversity, ensuring ...

With artificial photosynthesis, humankind could utilize solar energy to bind carbon dioxide and produce hydrogen. Chemists have taken this one step further: They have synthesized a stack of dyes that ...

Earth might be creating microscopic lightning bolts—and this electrical phenomenon could have sparked the chemistry of life ...

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

Fertilization of gardens and landscapes typically begins in April after soils have warmed. With fertilization, one size (or ...

Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges among water droplets from ...

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