Published on: 2025-10-11 15:30:33
While the origin of life on Earth is still up for debate, the Miller-Urey hypothesis suggests that a strike of lightning into ocean water mixed with inorganic gases may have triggered the formation of the first organic molecules. Critics of this hypothesis argue that the oceans were—and still are—too vast, and lightning too infrequent, for this explanation to be plausible. New research, however, suggests a solution to these discrepancies: microlightning. Researchers at Stanford University have
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