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Category: 7. Science
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With lunar missions looming, scientists grow chickpeas in ‘moon dirt’
A chickpea plant grows in a lunar soil simulant mixture inside a climate-controlled growth chamber at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, US, in this undated handout. — Reuters If the idea of lunar…
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Making hummus on the moon? Scientists just grew chickpeas in simulated lunar dirt
A combination of fungi and compost could make lunar regolith more fertile and one day help astronauts grow crops on the moon, according to new research based around experiments with chickpea plants.
Future outposts on the moon will need to be as…
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CAS Space Kinetica-2 Rocket Will Launch In Late March
CAS Space has officially set the launch of its Kinetica-2 reusable liquid rocket for late March. This launch will take place from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert and will carry a prototype of the Qingzhou-1 cargo spacecraft…
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Photographer Captures Rare Blue Line On Tuesday’s ‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse – Forbes
- Photographer Captures Rare Blue Line On Tuesday’s ‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse Forbes
- Totality is over — Feast your eyes on the 1st photos of the blood moon total lunar eclipse 2026 Space
- ‘Blood Moon’ to be visible in Pakistan today Business…
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Early land plants may have reshaped Earth’s carbon cycle
Ancient marine sediments have revealed that land plants began sending large amounts of carbon into the oceans about 455 million years ago.
That earlier arrival has pushed back the moment when plants began altering levels of oxygen and carbon…
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Genome modelling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2
Nguyen, E. et al. Sequence modeling and design from molecular to genome scale with Evo. Science 386, eado9336 (2024).
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Scientists capture a magnetic flip in 140 trillionths of a second
A team led by Ryo Shimano at the University of Tokyo has directly observed how electron spins flip inside an antiferromagnet, a material in which opposing spins cancel each other out. By capturing this process in action, the researchers…
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Europe’s 2.6 Gbps laser link outpaces China’s recent high-orbit trial
The quest for high-speed satellite communication has intensified.
Both the European Space Agency (ESA) and China’s Institute of Optoelectronics have reported successful gigabit-speed laser links to high-orbiting satellites.
It…
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China Achieves Breakthrough in High-orbit Satellite-ground Laser Communication—-Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese research institutions have successfully conducted a laser communication experiment between a high-orbit satellite and the ground, achieving two-way data transmission at 1 gigabit per second over a distance exceeding 40,000 kilometers, the…
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