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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 ...

Water droplets move faster down bundles of fibres than down individual fibres – even when the total perimeter of the two structures is identical. This discovery, from researchers at the University of ...

A laser-equipped research platform has, for the first time, photographed airflow just millimeters above ocean waves, ...

The fashion world has long been fascinated with the natural world, but the love affair poses one major challenge: how to create the (convincing) illusion of wetness.

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

Small charges in water spray can trigger the formation of key biochemicals Charges cause water droplets in an early-Earth atmosphere to build up pre-life chemicals.

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.