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

A crackdown on sulfur in ship fuel is linked to a steep drop in thunderclouds in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

Zare’s team demonstrated the existence of micro-lightning, very small electricity discharges that occur between tiny droplets of water spray. When triggered in a mixture of gases made to ...

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

New research suggests tiny electrical charges in water droplets could have fueled the chemical reactions that led to life.

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. New ...

Lightning flashes over the Mediterranean Sea (AFP via Getty ... Their study shows that larger water droplets often carry positive charges and smaller ones negative. When such oppositely charged ...