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Could all life on earth have started with a flash of lightning?

From Popular Mechanics: "A new study from Harvard University suggests that cloud-to-ground lightning — as opposed to other theories like cloud-to-cloud lightning or panspermia — likely provided the necessary material for the first organisms to form."

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And here's the full study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400819121

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