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NASA’s Curiosity rover found a molecule on Mars resembling a building block of DNA

NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified a nitrogen heterocycle in a 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rock, a type of molecule that resembles the chemical building blocks of DNA and RNA. The detection came ...
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Curiosity found 21 carbon-based molecules on Mars, seven of them never seen there before

NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified 21 carbon-containing molecules in a sample drilled from 3.5-billion-year-old rock on Mars, and seven of those molecules have never been detected on the planet ...