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A team of Israeli and American scientists says they have found a new way to search for life beyond Earth.

The team’s peer-reviewed study, which introduces a breakthrough method for detecting alien life by analyzing the diversity of molecular groups, was led by the Weizmann Institute of Science and appeared in Nature Astronomy.

“We’re talking about the building blocks of life,” lead researcher Dr. Gideon Yoffe, a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Prof. Yohai Kaspi and Prof. Itay Halevy of Weizmann’s Earth and Planetary Sciences, told The Times of Israel in a teleconference call. “This is what we’re looking for in the solar system and beyond.”

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