Scientists Find a Strange Chemical Loop That May Have Helped Life Get Started
A fragile sugar from space found a way to protect itself.
Space rocks like Bennu contain key genetic ingredients such as sugar, which they delivered in explosive fashion to provide early Earth with another source of life-friendly materials. Ribose is one such bio-essential sugar, some of which may have arri... [5309 chars]
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