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<p>While life on Earth is relatively new, geologically speaking, the ingredients that combined to form it might be much older than once thought. According to research published in <em>ACS Central Science</em>, the simplest amino acid, carbamic acid, could have formed alongside stars or planets within interstellar ices. The findings could be used to train deep space instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope to search for prebiotic molecules in distant, star-forming regions of the universe.</p>