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U of R professor part of NASA team that discovered building blocks of life on asteroid
Discoveries from an asteroid that contain the building blocks of life are making waves in the scientific community, and one ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
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NASA finds building blocks for life in the Bennu asteroid sample
NASA’s team also found an abundance of ammonia and formaldehyde which, in the right conditions, react together to form complex molecules like amino acids. The paper published in Nature reveals ...