The building blocks of life on Earth may have been fueled by tiny sparks hopping between water droplets.

In the vast tapestry of our sky, clouds are ever-present artists, painting the atmosphere with their unique and transient ...

WAVE 3 meteorologist Tawana Andrew breaks down what we know and what we don't about the climate and weather here in ...

Life may not have begun with a dramatic lightning strike into the ocean but from many smaller "microlightning" exchanges ...

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...

Advertisement Clouds that look like cartoon cotton balls or cauliflower are made up of tiny liquid water droplets and are called cumulus clouds. Often, these are fair-weather clouds that form when the ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets!

It is much like the way static electricity is generated, or lightning is built up and discharged in clouds. “When the water droplets come within nanometres of each other, you get an electric ...

These particles are a key ingredient in cloud formation. They serve as seeds, or nuclei, for water vapor to condense into ...

Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

The team first investigated how droplets of water developed different charges ... way energy is built up and discharged as lightning in clouds. The researchers used high-speed cameras to document ...