One of the defining characteristics of a Sacha Baron Cohen film is discomfort. At first, it’s discomfort that what you are about to see isn’t going to work, because it seems unlikely. Then you start laughing, and the
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Papercuts cut new album: When it comes to locally minted rock, Tim McCoy and the Papercuts never fail to deliver. The Dover-based band has just released its latest studio album, “Every Night Is Prom Night,” following
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The authors of “Legally Dead” reveal the grisly details of a local murder plot in the 1990s. This strange and unsettling story of a family destroyed is the basis of “Legally Dead,” a true crime book by Kevin Flynn and
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For reasons never entirely understood by his fans, Jim O’Rourke has always been a black sheep to the music media—and not in that loveable in-and-out-of-rehab sort of way. Many music writers simply despise the man (a 2002
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The General Assembly Chamber Orchestra will hold its debut performance at Second Congregational Church in Kittery on Friday, May 25. Readers will share poems of spring newly set to music by the ensemble members. They’ll
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news from space
Friday, 21 August 2009 19:38

glycine in space

After analysis of samples of the comet Wild 2 brought back by the Stardust spacecraft, NASA researchers have found the amino acid glycine to be present in the comet, according to a recent NASA release. Glycine is considered to be one of the building blocks of life, and this strengthens the case that substances favorable to the formation of life may have been delivered to Earth from space—and may likewise have been delivered to other planets by other comets.

This is the first time that glycine has been found in a comet.

 
 
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