{
  "id": 11722940,
  "title": "How Sugar from Outer Space Became One of the Backbones of Life on Earth",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/03/how-sugar-from-outer-space-became-one-of-the-backbones-of-life-on",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-03T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "slug": "nautilus",
    "url": "https://nautil.us/how-sugar-from-outer-space-became-one-of-the-backbones-of-life-on-earth-1285504/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Is there life elsewhere, or is Earth unique in the universe? This is one of humanity’s great unanswered questions. One way to approach this mystery is to investigate how life began here on Earth. Our research explores the conditions where a mixture of molecules somehow transformed from chemistry into biology. In a new study published in Scientific Reports , we shed new light on one possible step…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}