All life as we know it consists of the same chemical building blocks. These include peptides, which perform various completely different functions in the body – transporting substances, accelerating reactions […]
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
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First Measurement Of Isotopes In Atmosphere Of An Exoplanet
An international team of astronomers have become the first in the world to detect isotopes in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. It concerns different forms of carbon in the gaseous […]
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From Dust To, Possibly, Life – Complex Astrochemistry On Thin Ice Covering Dust Grains
Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the University of Jena have obtained a clearer view of nature’s tiny deep-space laboratories: tiny dust grains covered with ice. Instead […]
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Bringing Building Blocks of Life to Earth From Space
How life began on Earth, roughly 4 billion years ago, is one of the great scientific questions. New results from scientists at McMaster University and the Max Planck Institute for […]