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Scientists Say They’ve Found Fungi That Turn Dead Martian Soil Into Fertile Cropland - Futurism
science 2026/05/31 11:30:00

Scientists Say They’ve Found Fungi That Turn Dead Martian Soil Into Fertile Cropland - Futurism

An international team of researchers argue that special fungi could be used to convert the Martian regolith into crop-friendly soil.

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Researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom' - Phys.org
science 2026/05/31 11:19:01

Researchers teach brain cells to play 'Doom' - Phys.org

Australian researchers have trained lab-grown brain cells on a silicon computer chip to play the nineties shooter game “Doom” and say they are just scratching the surface of what the neurons could be capable of doing.

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Chinese physicists achieve 20x laser interaction boost without extra power using quantum tech - Interesting Engineering
science 2026/05/31 11:18:00

Chinese physicists achieve 20x laser interaction boost without extra power using quantum tech - Interesting Engineering

Chinese physicists used quantum fluctuations to amplify laser effects while reducing the risk of material damage.

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Strange Event Might Have Been A Primordial Black Hole Winking At Us - ScienceAlert
science 2026/05/31 11:02:01

Strange Event Might Have Been A Primordial Black Hole Winking At Us - ScienceAlert

In 2019, astronomers recorded a distant star doing something unexpected.

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The Moon is stealing time from the Earth, and it has been getting away with it for billions of years. Our planet spins so much slower than it once did that a single day has stretched from just 19 hours to the 24 we live by, and the Moon is still creeping away from u - Space Daily
science 2026/05/31 09:00:20

The Moon is stealing time from the Earth, and it has been getting away with it for billions of years. Our planet spins so much slower than it once did that a single day has stretched from just 19 hours to the 24 we live by, and the Moon is still creeping away from u - Space Daily

Earth’s spin is slowing, the day is getting longer, and the Moon is drifting outward at about 3.8 centimetres a year, a figure measured by bouncing lasers off the reflectors the Apollo missions left on the surface. Two things in the popular telling are worth …

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There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. A major global estimate put the planet’s tree count at about three trillion, while NASA gives the Milky Way’s star count as roughly 100 to 400 billion. - Space Daily
science 2026/05/31 07:30:42

There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. A major global estimate put the planet’s tree count at about three trillion, while NASA gives the Milky Way’s star count as roughly 100 to 400 billion. - Space Daily

The most cited global estimate puts the number of trees on Earth at about three trillion. NASA gives the Milky Way somewhere between 100 and 400 billion stars. Three trillion is more than seven times the high end of that range, so there are indeed more trees …

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