29 August 2016
Dust is the key to producing complex organic molecules in space
... chemistry and are therefore considered the basic ingredients to explain the origin of life. The simplest sugar glycolaldehyde (CH2OHCHO), for example, is involved in the formation of amino acids and can react with another sugar, propenal...
09 June 2017
Key ingredients to life found around Sun-like stars
... known as IRAS 16293-2422. In 2012, another group of researchers also using ALMA, discovered the simple sugar glycolaldehyde - a highly reactive compound that can help form ribose, a central constituent of ribonucleic acid (RNA). Add this...
