Briefing Chat: Sweet! Elusive sugar molecules found in space

Benjamin Thompson, Nick Petrić Howe

Published Jul 17, 2026

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Nick Petrić Howecontributor

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Nature staff discuss the discovery of a four-carbon sugar molecule in interstellar space and a newly decoded formula that identifies a Maya mathematician.

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astrochemistryorigins of lifemathematicsarchaeology

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