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Love when people drop VERY important words for sensationalism.
On Earth, the only known source of dimethyl sulfide is life.
Yuck. Good thing I don't eat any breakfast cereals.
You missed a word there bud, and it was an important one. "Possible"
You know, I swear "Possible" wasn't in the article title when I auto populated the title in my post...
This is always clickbait. It's not aliens. It's never aliens. Even IF the detection of a chemical we previously believed only formed as a result of biotic processes is confirmed all this research can tell us is that there is likely conditions on other worlds where the abiotic formation of said chemical (in this case sulphur dioxide and disulphur dioxide) is possible.