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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
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Maggio 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…
Our Universe: An Expanding Bubble in a Cosmic Sea With Other Bubbles
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Gennaio 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.
Scientists Use Solar Power To Turn Salt Water Into Freshwater — And Mine Lithium From What Used To Be Toxic Brine
Environment
Luglio 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
International News
Giugno 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.