Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Cooking with Space: Milky Way goes well with white chocolate, fresh cream.

Astronomers find Milky Way 'could taste of raspberries'

Telegraph.co.uk

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, were searching space for evidence of amino acids: the basic chemicals from which life is created.

They told the Guardian newspaper that, despite failing to locate any such aminos, they did find a substance called ethyl formate, the chemical responsible for the flavour of raspberries.

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