Did jolts of ‘microlightning’ in primordial mist kick-start Earth’s earliest life? Scientists offer clues
New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...
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How did the first cells form on Earth? Scientists think they finally figured it out
About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...
New Research Suggests Earth’s First Oceans Weren’t Blue: They Were Green
Scientists have discovered evidence that Earth's oceans were once green, hinting that this could be a marker of early life, ...
New research sheds light on earliest days of Earth's formation
New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...
‘Microlightning’ May Have Sparked Life on Earth, New Research Suggests
The Miller-Urey hypothesis is based on a famous 1952 experiment in which researchers successfully formed these organic ...
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Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibility
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Tiny Sparks in Water May Have Triggered Life on Earth, a New Study Suggests
While previous studies say volcanic or atmospheric lightning may have triggered chemical reactions that created organic ...
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'Microlightning' between water droplets could have sparked life on Earth. Here's how
The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.