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Four volunteers grew crops in simulated Martian soil and talked to Earth with built-in delays. NASA now has two weeks of tests on them.
Searchable Editorial · 2 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
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The Sotheby's sale, about Rs 13 billion, beat a $9 million estimate and trails only the $50.1 million T. rex 'Gus'.
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University of Vermont researchers say power, danger and structure explain over 90% of word meaning, beating the valence-arousal-dominance model used for 70 years.
26 Oct 2026
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The San Francisco fusion company says it turned mercury into stable gold with neutrons from fusion reactions. The claim is unverified, and the amounts are tiny.
24 Oct 2026
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Pakistan's National Biosafety Committee put off approving GM soybean meal imports and renewing GM corn licences, asking its technical advisers for clearer advice.
24 Oct 2026
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Heart scans taken in orbit and a tilt-table test after landing suggest one of NASA's big worries about a Mars landing is manageable.
21 Oct 2026
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A daily-weather glacier model run on 12,500 glaciers finds today's projections too low. Here is what it means for the 3,044 glacial lakes in Gilgit-Baltistan and KP.
20 Oct 2026
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A 2020 satellite image raised hopes that Earhart's lost Lockheed Electra lay in a Pacific lagoon. Archaeologists found trees, a carbonate shine and one steel tube.
19 Oct 2026
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The H3 rocket flew as planned from Tanegashima and the probe is in its planned orbit. Here is what happens between now and the sample's return in 2031.
18 Oct 2026
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The UN migration agency's head, Amy Pope, said in New Delhi that funding for resilience is inadequate and urged early-warning data and AI forecasting to protect communities before disasters hit.
17 Oct 2026
