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[ad_1] Microbes could be a key partner in humanity’s quest to extend its footprint beyond Earth. The bacteria have successfully extracted resources from rocks in microgravity and simulated Martian gravity, suggesting that “biomining” has real potential to help settlement outside the Earth, a new study reports. Biomining is an established …

[ad_1] Any biological sample, such as dirt, water or food, contains billions of bacteria. Only a few are harmful to humans or pathogenic. But those few pathogens can make the difference between a reliable supply of meat or lettuce, for example, and a food poisoning epidemic or, worse, a pandemic. …

[ad_1] These illustrations show three versions of a rocky planet with varying amounts of internal heating from radioactive elements. The central planet is similar to Earth, with plate tectonics and an internal dynamo that generates a magnetic field. The topmost planet with the most radiogenic warming has extreme volcanism but …

[ad_1] Between coronaviruses, forest fires and the presidential election, 2020 was an overwhelming year. But it also brought a breathtaking, once in a lifetime heavenly activity comet, to close approach with Mars and countless meteor showers. November is no exception, as the Leonid is Tauride meteor showers promise to light …

[ad_1] This artist’s conception of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa shows a hypothesized cryo-volcanic eruption, in which brackish water from inside the frozen shell explodes into space. A new model of this process on Europa could also explain plumes on other icy bodies. Credit: Justice Blaine Wainwright On Jupiter’s icy moon …

[ad_1] Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. New research reveals how mosses have become one of the most widespread plants on our planet. Global wind systems carry them across Earth’s latitudes, over rooftops, sidewalks and lawns around the world and …

[ad_1] British scientists have shown how astronauts on the moon or Mars could someday extract important metals using bacteria. In a first-of-its-kind experiment on the International Space Station (ISS), microbes digested the rock to release rare earth elements (REEs). REEs are incorporated into electronics and alloys in particular. Researchers tell …

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[ad_1] IMAGE: This artist’s conception of the icy moon of Jupiter Europa shows a hypothesized cryo-volcanic eruption, in which brackish water from inside the frozen shell explodes into space. A new model of this … view More Credit: Image credit: Justice Blaine Wainwright On Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, powerful eruptions …

[ad_1] Water could emerge in connection with the formation of terrestrial planets, according to a new analysis of a Martian meteorite called North West Africa (NWA) 7533. An artistic impression of the young Mars. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO / N. Risinger, skysurvey.org. “There are two hypotheses about the …