From e!Science News
Published: Tuesday, March 5, 2013
It’s among the most ancient of questions: What are the origins of life on Earth? A new experiment simulating conditions in deep space reveals that the complex building blocks of life could have been created on icy interplanetary dust and then carried to Earth, jump-starting life.
Chemists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Hawaii, Manoa, showed that conditions in space are capable of creating complex dipeptides — linked pairs of amino acids — that are essential building blocks shared by all living things. The discovery opens the door to the possibility that these molecules were brought to Earth aboard a comet or possibly meteorites, catalyzing the formation of proteins (polypeptides), enzymes and even more complex molecules, such as sugars, that are necessary for life. . . . Read Complete Report
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Space Fan News #98: Life Can Come from Space; Nearest Galaxy Measured and more
Published on Mar 9, 2013
This week’s SFN was done from Austin, Texas and SXSW.
Evidence that comets seeded life on Earth:
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/0…
http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/7…
Nearest Galaxy Measured:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso131…
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http://cosmoquest.org
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http://cosmoquest.org/mappers/moon/
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