Lightning strikes may have created life's building blocks

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A Harvard University study suggests that cloud-to-ground lightning strikes may have contributed to the formation of life's building blocks on Earth. Researchers simulated early Earth conditions and found that lightning converted carbon and nitrogen into essential molecules, including carbon monoxide and ammonia. Their findings indicate that these strikes could be a more plausible source of life's precursors than previously considered methods, such as comets or asteroids.


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