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Alcohol in space: Exotic methanol discovered in planet-building zones

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), of which the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a partner (NSF NRAO), has combined expertise from across the globe to open a new window on how the organic molecules that seed planets, and potentially life, form in space.

Alcohol in space: Exotic methanol discovered in planet-building zones

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The enduring mystery of how a brain becomes a mind

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