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Tomatoes Doubled Their Harvest in Fake Martian Dirt While Peas and Carrots Lost — Wageningen’s First Intercropping Trial for the Red Planet
मई 1, 2024
Tomatoes Doubled Their Harvest in Fake Martian Dirt While Peas and Carrots Lost — Wageningen’s First Intercropping Trial for the Red Planet
Wageningen researchers mixed tomatoes, peas, and carrots in NASA Mars simulant. Tomatoes roughly doubled their fruit. The other two crops paid for it, and the whole system still lost to…
NASA Beams a Laser Message to Earth From 140 Million Miles on the Psyche Spacecraft
अप्रैल 30, 2024
NASA Beams a Laser Message to Earth From 140 Million Miles on the Psyche Spacecraft
NASA's Psyche spacecraft used DSOC to send a laser message 140 million miles to Earth. The demo later set a distance record near 307 million miles and wrapped in 2025.
Florida Keys Released Oxitec’s Genetically Modified Mosquitoes. The EPA Is Still Sitting on Commercial Use
अप्रैल 28, 2021
Florida Keys Released Oxitec’s Genetically Modified Mosquitoes. The EPA Is Still Sitting on Commercial Use
Oxitec's OX5034 male Aedes aegypti trial in the Florida Keys ended in summer 2024. The EPA is still assessing commercial registration. The Keys also ran a Wolbachia male release in…
Superhuman DNA: How Big Pharma Turned Painless People and Unbreakable Bones Into Journavx and Evenity
फ़रवरी 16, 2019
Superhuman DNA: How Big Pharma Turned Painless People and Unbreakable Bones Into Journavx and Evenity
Pharma hunted rare genes in people who feel no pain and people whose bones will not break. That research produced Journavx in 2025 and the osteoporosis drug Evenity.
Our Universe: An Expanding Bubble in a Cosmic Sea With Other Bubbles
जनवरी 5, 2019
Our Universe: An Expanding Bubble in a Cosmic Sea With Other Bubbles
Physicists treat our cosmos as a bubble expanding in a higher-dimensional sea. DESI's 2026 map of 47 million galaxies hints dark energy may be weakening over time.
Four Globe-Earth Proofs Flat Earthers Still Cannot Explain — From Sunsets to Southern Stars
अगस्त 4, 2017
Four Globe-Earth Proofs Flat Earthers Still Cannot Explain — From Sunsets to Southern Stars
Joshua Kitterman's four globe-Earth proofs a flat model cannot explain: a sun that would never set, the same moon face everywhere, aircraft altitude, and southern stars. YouTube later demoted the…
Scientists Use Solar Power To Turn Salt Water Into Freshwater — And Mine Lithium From What Used To Be Toxic Brine
जुलाई 5, 2017
Scientists Use Solar Power To Turn Salt Water Into Freshwater — And Mine Lithium From What Used To Be Toxic Brine
Solar-powered desalination is turning seawater into drinking water without fossil fuels. MIT suitcase units and Rochester's black-metal panels now skip toxic brine and recover minerals, including lithium.
Scientists Argue the Universe Itself May Be Conscious — And Two Leading Theories Just Failed the Same Lab Test
जून 29, 2017
Scientists Argue the Universe Itself May Be Conscious — And Two Leading Theories Just Failed the Same Lab Test
Panpsychism holds that consciousness is woven into the cosmos. COGITATE's Nature tests of IIT vs. Global Workspace left no winner. INTREPID and a San Diego conference are next.
9 Uses For Hemp The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You — And The Total-THC Law That Hits The Intoxicating Shelf In November
फ़रवरी 27, 2017
9 Uses For Hemp The Mainstream Media Won’t Tell You — And The Total-THC Law That Hits The Intoxicating Shelf In November
Hemp can fuel engines, store energy, replace concrete, feed livestock, and clean soil. The 2018 Farm Bill legalized it; a total-THC rewrite lands November 12 unless Congress delays it.