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NEW - An Asteroid Just Rewrote What DNA Ingredients Look Like
A six-year-old sample from asteroid Ryugu just confirmed all five major DNA building blocks, and Dr. Samantha Yammine breaks down why that finding matters more than the headlines suggest. It separates what the data actually shows from the more dramatic claim that life itself started elsewhere.
The conversation traces the Hayabusa2 mission's pristine sample collection, built specifically to rule out the Earth contamination that clouded earlier meteorite research. It explains a new detail from this study: the ratio of nucleobases shifts with ammonia levels, offering a clue to what other life…
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