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Newly ID’d Space Molecules Give Insight into Life’s Origins – Nerdist
Researchers at MIT have discovered aromatic hydrocarbons in space, and they may alter our understanding of how life first began.
Because everyone’s absorbed in the minutiae of everyday existence, we often set aside the whole “origins of life” discussion. Thankfully, astronomers are still peering into space to glean our ultimate, cosmic beginnings, and a team of them at MIT have just found something quite intriguing: a type of molecule not previously observed in space, which may support an alternative theory for how carbon eventually turned into life.
Science News reported on the discovery, which a team of researchers, led…
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