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The Building Blocks of Life Can Form Even Without Stars or Planets, Scientists Say

independent.co.uk

Glycine, the simplest amino acid and building block of life, can form without energy.
It can happen through “dark chemistry”, which doesn’t need energetic radiation to happen.
Even before stars and planets were formed, glycine could exist in interstellar clouds, forming on icy dust grains.
This finding could suggest that life-creating molecules could be more widespread in the Universe than we previously thought.

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History (19) ‘Viking’ was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows
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