{"id":2005,"date":"2026-07-24T11:19:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/first-sugar-ever-found-in-interstellar-space-could-help-explain-lifes-origins\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:19:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:19:51","slug":"first-sugar-ever-found-in-interstellar-space-could-help-explain-lifes-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/first-sugar-ever-found-in-interstellar-space-could-help-explain-lifes-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"First Sugar Ever Found in Interstellar Space Could Help Explain Life\u2019s Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/first-sugar-ever-found-in-interstellar-space-could-help-explain-lifes-origins\/\" title=\"First Sugar Ever Found in Interstellar Space Could Help Explain Life\u2019s Origins\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Composite-Image-From-the-Galactic-Center-777x585.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Composite Image From the Galactic Center\" style=\"display: block;margin: auto;margin-bottom: 5px;max-width: 100%\" \/><\/a>Researchers have detected a sugar in the interstellar medium for the first time. Sugars are central to life. They help form the structural backbone of DNA and RNA and participate in essential metabolic reactions. They are also thought to have been necessary for the formation of the earliest nucleic acids. Yet researchers studying life\u2019s origins [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science, Space and Technology News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have detected a sugar in the interstellar medium for the first time. Sugars are central to life. They help form the structural backbone of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-technology","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}