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NASA is Zapping Organics with Lasers
October 3, 2012 | NASA.gov

“Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are creating concoctions of organics, or carbon-bearing molecules, on ice in the lab, then zapping them with lasers. Their goal: to better understand how life arose on Earth.” Quoted from the NASA press release.


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