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Microlightning in Water Droplets May Have Sparked Life on Earth, in a "Striking" New Twist on Life's Origins

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New research out of Stanford University adds a “striking” new twist to an existing theory about how life may have began on our planet, involving the occurrence of microlightning in tiny water droplets.   Known as the Miller-Urey hypothesis, the theory stems from a classic 1952 experiment that demonstrated how life’s building blocks could form when electricity similar to lightning interacts with a mix of water and gases. Now, Stanford scientists …

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Microlightning in Water Droplets May Have Sparked Life on Earth, in a "Striking" New Twist on Life's Origins

New research out of Stanford University adds a “striking” new twist to an existing theory about how life may have began on our planet, involving the occurrence of microlightning in tiny water droplets.   Known as the Miller-Urey hypothesis, the theory stems from a classic 1952 experiment that demonstrated how life’s building blocks could form when electricity similar to lightning interacts with a mix of water and gases. Now, Stanford scientists …

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'Microlightning' Between Water Droplets May Have Sparked Life, Research Finds

Stanford University researchers have discovered that small bursts of electricity — which they call microlightning, created by oppositely charged water droplets interacting in the early Earth, likely created the first organic compounds that later led to life. For decades, one of the leading hypotheses for the origin of life has been the Miller-Urey hypothesis. In 1952, renowned chemist Harold Urey observed that most planets in the solar system we…

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‘Microlightning’ Between Water Droplets May Have Sparked Life, Research Finds

Stanford University researchers have discovered that small bursts of electricity - which they call microlightning, created by oppositely charged water droplets interacting in the early Earth, likely created the first organic compounds that later led to life. For decades, one of the leading hypotheses for the origin of life has been the Miller-Urey hypothesis. In 1952, renowned chemist Harold Urey observed that most planets in the solar system we…

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A study claims that microscopic sparks in water droplets could have...

Source In 1952, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey of the University of Chicago developed one of the most iconic and fundamental experiments in ... by @mauromar

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