Murchison Meteorite's Chemical Bonanza The 1969 Murchison meteorite was known to harbor complex organic compounds, but a new analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that it may also contain millions of chemicals and shed lig

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JIM AND IRENE WESTCOTT were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children, t

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Meanwhile, geology had a great deal of sorting out to do, and not all of it went smoothly. From the outset geologists tried to categorize rocks by the periods in which they were laid down, but there were often bitter disagreements about where to put

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The members met twice a month from November until June, when virtually all of them went off to spend the summer doing fieldwork. These weren't people with a pecuniary interest in minerals, you understand, or even academics for the most part, but simp

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The Murchison meteorite was found to be 4.5 billion years old, 人们发现,默奇森陨石的年代已达45亿年, and it was studded with amino acidsseventy-four types in all, eight of which are involved in the formation of earthly proteins. 上面

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Life emerged so swiftly, in fact, that some authorities think it must have had helpperhaps a good deal of help. 实际上,生命出现得太快,有的权威人士认为肯定有什么东西帮了忙也许是帮了大忙。 The idea that earthly l

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