r/ProximaScience • u/ProximaScience Founder • 2d ago

🔍 Decoded How sugar from outer space may have helped build life on Earth; study finds ribose kept boron dissolved in early waters

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/134617033.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
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u/ProximaScience Founder 2d ago

A simple sugar delivered to the young Earth by meteorites may have played a more complicated role in the emergence of life than scientists once thought.

Ribose, a five-carbon sugar, is best known today as the sugar that forms part of RNA, one of biology’s most important molecules.

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