Water is essential to life, yet its true origin on Earth still stirs debate. Scientists have long wondered whether it came ...

The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans. But ...

Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is ...

Land water is vanishing faster. Earth's surface struggles to recover, risking food, water, and climate stability.

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 ...

Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered a new group of microbes living deep underground that help purify ...

The seminal 1952 Miller-Urey experiment sent jolts of electricity through a flask of water and gases intended to represent early Earth’s atmosphere, and found that certain amino acids and other ...

'Microlightning' in water droplets may have sparked life on Earth. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250314170431.htm ...

Life may have first emerged on Earth after crashing waterfalls or breaking waves sparked tiny “microlightning” discharges in water droplets, according to a new study. The research, published ...

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 ...