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Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way
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Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way
Many carbon-rich meteorites contain ingredients commonly found in life, but no evidence of life itself. James St. John, CC BYWhen NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu contained many of life’s building blocks, including all five nucleobases used in DNA and RNA, 14 of the 20 amino acids found in p…
Recent analyses of Bennu asteroid samples show that life's chemical bricks can exist without any biology at work. Faced with this ambiguity, researchers propose a new approach based on artificial intelligence.
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