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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>The authors of the new study argue that the gas they set their sights on could serve as a good biosignature as there are \u201climited ways\u201d to produce it through \u201cnon-biological means.\u201d<\/p>\n

Researchers from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have identified a new potential biosignature that may help in the search for life on other planets.<\/p>\n

According to a press release by the university, the researchers pointed at a process called methylation that many plants \u2013 such as broccoli, for example \u2013 and microorganisms use to expel potential toxins from their bodies, by turning said toxins into gases.<\/p>\n

The researchers therefore argue that, if the presence of gases produced by methylation is detected on other planets, it may hint at the existence of life on these worlds.<\/p>\n

One particular gas produced via methylation, methyl bromide, caught the researchers\u2019 eye for several reasons, one of them being the fact that the gas in question remains in the atmosphere for a shorter time than other biosignature gases.<\/p>\n

She also pointed out that there are \u201climited ways\u201d to produce methyl bromide through \u201cnon-biological means\u201d, so \u201cit is more indicative of life if you find it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While methyl bromide is somewhat hard to detect in Earth\u2019s atmosphere, despite being rather common, due to the intensity of the UV light emitted by our sun, the researchers concluded that this gas would be more easily detectable around an M dwarf star, the press release notes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn M dwarf host star increases the concentration and detectability of methyl bromide by four orders of magnitude compared to the sun,\u201d Leung said.<\/p>\n

Eddie Schwieterman, UCR astrobiologist and leader of Leung\u2019s research group who co-authored the study, also said they believe methyl bromide is \u201cone of many gases commonly made by organisms on Earth that may provide compelling evidence of life from afar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one is just the tip of the iceberg,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

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