How sweet is the Milky Way? Astrochemist is helping find out

Astrochemist Ryan Fortenberry, UM associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, collaborated with Ralf Kaiser, of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, to study the creation of a simple sugar acid in space-like conditions. This molecule, glyceric acid, is considered a "building block" of life. The journal Physik in unserer Zeit recently published their research (in German).

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