Scientists working to cultivate the field of extraterrestrial agriculture have grown chickpeas in dirt made mostly of simulated lunar soil, a step toward enabling astronauts on long-term moon missions to produce their own food.
Researchers said…

Scientists working to cultivate the field of extraterrestrial agriculture have grown chickpeas in dirt made mostly of simulated lunar soil, a step toward enabling astronauts on long-term moon missions to produce their own food.
Researchers said…

The mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave. (Photo: University of Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen CC BY 4.0)
Long before cities, agriculture, or record keeping, Ice Age humans carved small lines and dots into ivory and bone….

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Scientists have discovered over 100 more gravitational wave events. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)
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A 518-million-year-old fossil has revealed that some of the earliest vertebrates possessed four image-forming eyes instead of two.
That configuration recasts a small brain structure humans still carry as the remnant of a once fully visual organ.


New research reveals that when NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn’t just change the motion of Dimorphos around its larger companion,…