Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬
@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io
#Ecology & #Ocean #Scientist now doing Scientific #HPC, #SRE, #DevOps, #PlatformEngineering, and #Supercomputing I also talk about #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #Linux #PhDLife Born below 340ppm
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Scientists spot #sugar in interstellar #space for the first time ever
#Erythrulose, a sugar found in raspberries, kiwis, fruits, also apparently exists in a giant molecular cloud of gas and dust near the center of our galaxy. First time sugar has been seen in #interstellarspace
Question is: How did sugar get there? For life as we know it, sugars are vital, both as energy-storage molecules and as ingredients in bio building blocks such as DNA & RNA
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-spot-sugar-in-interstellar-space-for-the-first-time-ever/
https://archive.ph/qqxYH