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Studying Life’s Origins By Simulating a Cosmic Evolution

by Keith Cowing

Amino acids make up millions of proteins that drive the chemical gears of life, including essential bodily functions in animals. Because of amino acids’ relationship to living things scientists are […]

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X-ray Photodesorption Of Complex Organic Molecules In Protoplanetary Disks — I. Acetonitrile CH3CN

by Keith Cowing

X-rays emitted from pre-main-sequence stars at the center of protoplanetary disks can induce nonthermal desorption from interstellar ices populating the cold regions. This X-ray photodesorption needs to be quantified for […]

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