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Millions of lightning strikes may have been just what life needed to begin on early Earth, according to a new study.

 E-Mail Lightning strikes -- perhaps a quintillion of them, occurring over a billion years -- may have provided sparks of life for the early Earth. A new study by researchers at Yale and the University of Leeds contends that over time, these bolts from the blue unlocked the phosphorus necessary for the creation of biomolecules that would be the basis of life on the planet. "This work helps us understand how life may have formed on Earth and how it could still be forming on other, Earth-like planets," said lead author Benjamin Hess, a graduate student in Yale's Department of Earth & Planetary...

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Lightning -- and not meteorites -- may have seeded life on Earth.

Lightning strikes may have supplied primordial Earth with enough phosphorus to support the emergence of life, according to new research.