About this episode

The episode discusses a discovery of a natural sugar found in raspberries detected in a cloud near the Milky Way.

I am charmed by an article I read in the Guardian recently about a fascinating discovery. Scientists detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in an enormous cloud of dust and gas that’s near the heart of the Milky Way. I know I’m the one making this leap and this isn’t how chemistry works, but I imagine that if I were in space, and presuming I wouldn’t freeze to death, I could stick out my tongue and the air would taste faintly like raspberries.

Topics covered

• science
• space
• chemistry
• raspberries
• discovery

Keywords

• raspberry
• sugar
• Milky Way
• space
• discovery
• chemistry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Guardian

Places: Milky Way

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