Bern scientists hope to find the building blocks of life in space The Unversity of Bern's ORIGIN mass spectrometer swissinfo.ch / Christian Raaflaub Andreas Riedo and Niels Ligterink are on a mission. The two Bern-based scientists hope to find life in space using a state-of-the art instrument known as ORIGIN that may be used on future space missions to Jupiter and Saturn. This content was published on April 10, 2021 - 14:00 April 10, 2021 - 14:00 Christian Raaflaub “From a purely statistical perspective it’s impossible that we are alone in the universe,” declares Andreas Riedo, a profe...