They say the reaction might have made the building blocks of DNA and RNA, both essential for life.

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High school girls from around the nation wait in line to ask questions of scientist Katie Bouman during the annual Women in STEM program at Caltech in Pasadena. (Ringo Chiu/For The Times) The ...