<img src="https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/gettyimages-92501959-1.jpg" alt="«Micro-lightning» in water droplets could have influenced the emergence of life on Earth"/>How exactly life arose on our planet is a question that has worried scientists for centuries. A variety of hypotheses have been put forward on this account: from creationism to panspermia. Among them are versions of biochemical evolution: under the influence of an electric discharge, chemical reactions occurred that could lead to the synthesis of organic molecules from inorganic ones. Chemists from Stanford University conducted an experiment and obtained data to support this version.
