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6:54scientists at JPL that showed that a Martian meteorite that they had found in Antarctica might have had some bacterial looking things. And then immediately the entire world community of scientists was like, well, no, that that could be because you've either contaminated and also just cuz it looks like a bacterial looking thing doesn't mean that it's actually bacteria from Mars, right? Um, so there's been a lot of debate about whether we can even make those kinds of arguments, right? Because once a space rock lands on Earth, it immediately gets contaminated by Earth biology. >> So here the hero of the story is a

7:34satellite/bombing system by the Japanese space agency called Hayabusa 2. And what it did was go to an asteroid called Ryu, R Y u guu.

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    AI Breaks a 90-Year Math Problem, Life’s Alphabet in Space, and Science Funding

    Asteroid samples reveal life’s molecular alphabet, Washington battles over who controls science funding, and AI produces a counterexample to a 90-year-old mathematics conjecture.

    AI Breaks a 90-Year Math Problem, Life’s Alphabet in Space, and Science Funding

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