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Sweet Molecule Could Lead Us To Alien Life

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-catch-more-aliens-with-honey dept.

Matt_dk writes "Scientists have detected an organic sugar molecule that is directly linked to the origin of life in a region of our galaxy where habitable planets could exist. The international team of researchers used the IRAM radio telescope in France to detect the molecule in a massive star forming region of space, some 26,000 light years from Earth."

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  1. What about life is alien to you? by smittyoneeach · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Chicks are OK, really. Log out of WoW and meet some.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear