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Geologist Egon T. Degens of Caltech has all but destroyed this romantic notion. Taking samples from the interiors of two porous nonmetallic meteorites -the sort that are supposed to contain traces of "exo-life"-he ground the material and boiled it, first in water, then in alcohol, then for ten...
But spoilsport Degens was not yet ready for conclusion jumping. After making certain that no more organic material could be extracted from the meteorite powder, he covered his samples with filter paper and let them stand for two weeks. He then boiled them again. From each sample of dust came...
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