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The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope array in Chile found significant concentrations of cyanides believed to be essential precursors of amino acids and other building blocks of ...

Scientists have long queried how the complex molecules needed for life could have formed around the tumultuous and violent environment of the sun in its youth. A family of meteorites called ...