Making the cut: Electrons at energies close to 0 eV have been shown to be resonantly captured by gas‐phase D‐ribose‐5‐phosphate (a model compound for the DNA and RNA backbone) with subsequent cleavage of the sugar–phosphate linkage (see scheme). This supports the idea that breakage of DNA strands by electrons at very low energies are triggered by dissociative electron attachment directly to the DNA/RNA backbone.