An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life — nucleobases — could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the stars.
An inside look of an ultra-high vacuum reaction chamber that simulates chemical reactions
in an interstellar cloud environment [Credit: Hokkaido University]Essential building blocks of DNA — compounds called nucleobases — have been detected for the first time in a simulated…
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