While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...

Although it makes up 70 per cent of our planet's surface, scientists still don't all agree on where Earth's water actually comes from. Now, researchers claim to have found the origins of water in ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

small electrical charges built up in water droplets and unleashed tiny bursts of electricity may have been enough to power ...

Large soda lakes may have provided the high phosphorus levels needed for life to begin on Earth, offering a new explanation ...

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

“This new theory helps to solve another piece of the puzzle of the origin of life on Earth,” Walton said. Because soda lakes ...

Life needs sufficient phosphorus. However, the element is scarce, not only today but also at the time of the origin of life. So where was there sufficient phosphorus four billion years ago for life to ...

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