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The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets. Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves ...

More information: Lixue Shi et al, Water structure and electric fields at the interface of oil droplets, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08702-y ...

How? A new hypothesis suggests that tiny sparks of electricity, leaping between water droplets, could have jump-started the chemical reactions that gave rise to the basic building blocks of life.

A new study from Stanford suggests that life might have been kickstarted by constant zaps from “microlightning” between water droplets. The most profound missing link in the evolutionary tree ...

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New research from Stanford University suggests that water droplets, when sprayed into a mix of gases found in early Earth’s atmosphere, can create organic molecules. Among them is uracil, a key ...

Water droplets create “microlightning” when they split, producing electrical discharges without any external power source These tiny electrical sparks can transform simple gases into complex organic ...