Bioengineering professor and The Grainger College of Engineering's Dean, Rashid Bashir, led a team of researchers in a project that's resulted in new ...

Medical sensors improve the accuracy of disease detection and treatment planning by enabling accurate diagnostics and ...

Forget the dramatic lightning strike – life may have started with countless tiny sparks from crashing water droplets! Scientists found that when mist and sprays collide, they generate microlightning ...

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

A study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning may have ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

In their view, inorganic molecules might have reacted due to energy from the Sun or lightning strikes to form life’s building ...