We don't usually sugar-coat the news but... Alien sugars found in Earth-bound meteorites

We don't usually sugar-coat the news but... Alien sugars found in Earth-bound meteorites

5 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/22/meteorite_sugar_found/

Scientists have detected alien sugars in Earth-bound meteorites for the first time, providing further evidence that the ingredients needed to kick start life on our planet may have been delivered from space.

The boffins – led by a team at Tohoku University, Japan – analysed powdered samples of two meteorites dubbed NWA 801 and Murchison. They found several different types of sugars, including ribose – a vital component for RNA – in varying abundances that ranged from 2.3 to 180 parts per billion.

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