{"id":67500,"date":"2025-09-02T20:31:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=67500"},"modified":"2025-09-03T23:23:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:23:03","slug":"the-common-structure-of-the-brain-and-the-cosmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-common-structure-of-the-brain-and-the-cosmos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Common Structure of the Brain and the Cosmos"},"content":{"rendered":"In February 2025, a remarkable study was published in the renowned journal Nature Astronomy (Glavin et al. 2025). During its seven-year mission, NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected cosmic rock samples from Bennu, a 500-meter-wide asteroid in near-Earth orbit. The samples were returned to Earth in a sealed capsule to prevent any terrestrial contamination.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn addition to numerous amino acids and other organic compounds, the rock samples from Bennu also contained all the nucleic bases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil) that are the basic building blocks of DNA and RNA common to all life fo<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2025, a remarkable study was published in the renowned journal Nature Astronomy (Glavin et al. 2025). During its seven-year mission, NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected cosmic rock samples from Bennu, a 500-meter-wide asteroid in near-Earth orbit. The samples were returned to Earth in a sealed capsule to prevent any terrestrial contamination. In addition to numerous amino acids and other organic compounds, the rock samples from Bennu also contained all the nucleic bases (adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil) that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12614,"featured_media":67203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8825,8789],"tags":[11686,11687,8824],"class_list":["post-67500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-sciences","category-research","tag-ausgabe-33-34-2025-en","tag-english-issue-36-2025","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}