NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"

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Asteroid Bennu isn't playing nice with a leading scientific hypothesis.

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space rock in a laboratory, hoping it would answer some of humanity's most enduring questions.

Did the bias toward left-handed amino acids begin in the cosmos, or did it happen later on this planet?

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