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🪐 Raspberry sugar found floating in deep space, 26,745 light-years from Earth
Scientists just detected erythrulose (a sugar in raspberries and kiwis) in a giant molecular cloud near our galaxy's center - the first sugar ever found in interstellar space. It may have rained down on early Earth via meteorites and helped seed life.
Published today in Nature Astronomy.
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🪐 Raspberry sugar found floating in deep space, 26,745 light-years from Earth
Scientists just detected erythrulose (a sugar in raspberries and kiwis) in a giant molecular cloud near our galaxy's center - the first sugar ever found in interstellar space. It may have rained down on early Earth via meteorites and helped seed life.
Published today in Nature Astronomy.
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Preprint:
Rethinking hydrothermal vents: a structural ecology perspective on the early emergence of metabolic roles
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Rethinking hydrothermal vents: a structural ecology perspective on the early emergence of metabolic roles
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Polar Ice–Auroral Environments as Cradles of RNA-Based Protocells
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Polar Ice–Auroral Environments as Cradles of RNA-Based Protocells
https://zenodo.org/records/20805831 -
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Polar Ice–Auroral Environments as Cradles of RNA-Based Protocells
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Polar Ice–Auroral Environments as Cradles of RNA-Based Protocells
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So How Did Life Start on Earth? New Experiments Provide More Answers - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp4N7eNsRm4 -
So How Did Life Start on Earth? New Experiments Provide More Answers - YouTube
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Soil that has been irradiated to kill all microbial life continues to emit CO2 and generate free electrons, suggesting that metabolic processes are occurring geochemically, outside of cells. These abiotic metabolic reactions might have had a role in the origin of life.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/
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Soil that has been irradiated to kill all microbial life continues to emit CO2 and generate free electrons, suggesting that metabolic processes are occurring geochemically, outside of cells. These abiotic metabolic reactions might have had a role in the origin of life.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/
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Dying Stars Replicated, Shedding Light on Life's Origins
Scientists in a lab recreated dying stars, showing how hydrogen helps create cosmic dust with the building blocks for life. This could explain how life started on Earth.
#CosmicDust, #Astrobiology, #OriginOfLife, #StellarScience, #Hydrogen
https://newsletter.tf/hydrogen-makes-life-building-blocks-in-dying-stars/
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Researchers have successfully made cosmic dust in a lab, similar to what dying stars produce. This dust contains the basic ingredients for life, showing they might have come from space.
#CosmicDust, #Astrobiology, #OriginOfLife, #StellarScience, #Hydrogen
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Major Discovery on the Origin of Life Found Inside a Korean Crater - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4g1Oi6SoB8 -
Major Discovery on the Origin of Life Found Inside a Korean Crater - YouTube
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Un an en orbite pour une expérience unique : IR-Coaster embarque un mini-laboratoire qui étudie en continu comment les molécules prébiotiques réagissent au rayonnement spatial. u-paris.fr/lodyssee-spa... #Space #Science #Astrophysics #Astrobiology #CNES #ISS #Exobiology #SpaceChemistry #OriginOfLife
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Dragonfly: Auf der Spur der chemischen Ursprünge des Lebens
https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/03/14/dragonfly-auf-der-spur-der-chemischen-ursprunge-des-lebens/ #DragonflyMission #NASA #Titan #SpaceExploration #Astrobiology #Saturn #OceanWorld #OriginOfLife #SpaceScience #PlanetaryScience #Chemistry #SearchForLife #TitanDragonfly -
Dragonfly: Auf der Spur der chemischen Ursprünge des Lebens
https://dauckchristian.home.blog/2026/03/14/dragonfly-auf-der-spur-der-chemischen-ursprunge-des-lebens/ #DragonflyMission #NASA #Titan #SpaceExploration #Astrobiology #Saturn #OceanWorld #OriginOfLife #SpaceScience #PlanetaryScience #Chemistry #SearchForLife #TitanDragonfly -
Investigating the Geographical Origins of First Life on Earth
Where did life on Earth start first? Scientists look at deep oceans and volcanoes to find out if we will find life on Mars or other moons.
#originoflife, #deepseavents, #volcanicpools, #nasamars, #earlyearth
https://newsletter.tf/where-did-life-on-earth-start-first-ocean-vs-volcano/
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Scientists are choosing between the deep ocean and land volcanoes for the start of life. This choice tells us if we should look for aliens on Mars or icy moons.
#originoflife, #deepseavents, #volcanicpools, #nasamars, #earlyearth
https://newsletter.tf/where-did-life-on-earth-start-first-ocean-vs-volcano/
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Meteorites, asteroids, and comets can host prebiotic organic compounds. Amino acids in extraterrestrial materials originate from diverse precursor sources or formation mechanisms and/or undergo varied postformation alteration. #Bennu ☄️ #OriginOfLife? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Meteorites, asteroids, and comets can host prebiotic organic compounds. Amino acids in extraterrestrial materials originate from diverse precursor sources or formation mechanisms and/or undergo varied postformation alteration. #Bennu ☄️ #OriginOfLife? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Her groundbreaking theory on the #originoflife was rejected 15 times. Then #biology proved her right.
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Her groundbreaking theory on the #originoflife was rejected 15 times. Then #biology proved her right.
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here's the paper about those interstellar peptides: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02765-7
#science #astrobiology #originOfLife -
here's the paper about those interstellar peptides: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02765-7
#science #astrobiology #originOfLife -
Giant Virus From Japan is Rewriting the Origin of Life - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8nnEYBmAzY -
Giant Virus From Japan is Rewriting the Origin of Life - YouTube
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7-Jan-2026
#Ushikuvirus: A newly discovered giant virus may offer clues to the #originOfLife^^^ I don't think so
Ushikuvirus, an amoeba-infecting giant virus, joins the family of giant #viruses that may have driven the #evolution of complex cells
^^^^ this sounds better
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7-Jan-2026
#Ushikuvirus: A newly discovered giant virus may offer clues to the #originOfLife^^^ I don't think so
Ushikuvirus, an amoeba-infecting giant virus, joins the family of giant #viruses that may have driven the #evolution of complex cells
^^^^ this sounds better
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How did primitive membranes form at the #OriginOfLife and how did they evolve into the cellular envelopes of modern cells?
Exciting talk by Claudia Bonfio about the non-enzymatic formation of phospholipids under conditions that are plausible for early Earth. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/sc/d4sc05362a (1/2)
#Chemistry #OriginOfLife #lipid #membrane #evolution #LipidTime #NucleicAcids
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♨️ Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-underwater-thermal-vents-molecular-precursors.html
#biology #life #earthscience #underwater #thermal #originoflife
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♨️ Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-underwater-thermal-vents-molecular-precursors.html
#biology #life #earthscience #underwater #thermal #originoflife
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#Panspermia, panspermia everywhere
"Intelligent life in the universe is at its beginning"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.3381
#OriginOfLife #Biochemistryandmolecularbiology #IhavenoIdeaOfHalfOfWhatIRead
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22-Oct-2025
Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
To test the hypothesis, researchers from Brazil, the United States, and Japan built bench-scale reactors that simulate the interaction between hydrothermal fluids and primitive ocean water -
22-Oct-2025
Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
To test the hypothesis, researchers from Brazil, the United States, and Japan built bench-scale reactors that simulate the interaction between hydrothermal fluids and primitive ocean water -
16-Oct-2025
Unexpected discovery on #Saturn's moon #Titan challenges our view on #chemistry before life emerged -
16-Oct-2025
Unexpected discovery on #Saturn's moon #Titan challenges our view on #chemistry before life emerged -
Evidence That Life on Earth Was a Result of a Giant Impact - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz11a6kFkWo -
Evidence That Life on Earth Was a Result of a Giant Impact - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz11a6kFkWo -
Molecular Origin of Life: What Formed First – Protein, DNA or RNA or a Combination Thereof?
‘Several questions about origin of life have been answered, but much remains to be studied’’ said Stanley Miller and Harold Urey way back in 1959...........
#biology #DNA #originoflife #PROTEIN #Rajeevsoni #Reviews #RNA
Rajeev Soni -
Molecular Origin of Life: What Formed First – Protein, DNA or RNA or a Combination Thereof?
‘Several questions about origin of life have been answered, but much remains to be studied’’ said Stanley Miller and Harold Urey way back in 1959...........
#biology #DNA #originoflife #PROTEIN #Rajeevsoni #Reviews #RNA
Rajeev Soni -
The unreasonable likelihood of being - #OriginOfLife, terraforming, and AI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18545 -> What Were the Chances of Abiogenesis? https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-were-the-chances-of-abiogenesis
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The unreasonable likelihood of being - #OriginOfLife, terraforming, and AI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18545 -> What Were the Chances of Abiogenesis? https://www.universetoday.com/articles/what-were-the-chances-of-abiogenesis
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New Findings Indicate that the #OriginofLife Started in #Space
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17-Jul-2025
On the origins of life: recreating cellular #metabolism
Researchers have reached a crucial step in understanding how living cells may have evolved from nonliving matter