{"id":1611,"date":"2026-01-05T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2026-03-12T13:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T04:35:21","slug":"interview-featured-in-national-geographic-this-asteroid-is-spilling-secrets-about-the-origin-of-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/interview-featured-in-national-geographic-this-asteroid-is-spilling-secrets-about-the-origin-of-life-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Featured in National Geographic: \u201cThis Asteroid Is Spilling Secrets About the Origin of Life on Earth\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Professor Shogo Tachibana<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0<strong>UTOPS<\/strong>\u00a0was interviewed for the\u00a0<em>National Geographic<\/em>\u00a0article\u00a0<strong>\u201cThis Asteroid Is Spilling Secrets About the Origin of Life on Earth.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article discusses recent research on&nbsp;<strong>asteroid samples such as Ryugu and Bennu<\/strong>, and how these materials provide clues to the&nbsp;<strong>origin of water and organic compounds related to the emergence of life on Earth<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more details, please see the article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/asteroid-bennu-ryugu-life-origins-earth\">https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/asteroid-bennu-ryugu-life-origins-earth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Shogo Tachibana\u00a0of the\u00a0UTOPS\u00a0was interviewed for the\u00a0National Geographic\u00a0article\u00a0\u201cThis Asteroid Is S &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/utops.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}