October is Space Month. At Duke University, space research is more than just science—it's a bold journey across disciplines. This is the first in a series of stories featuring innovators, dreamers and doers shaping the future ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2025
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From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of glass and bright white structures. Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, it looks almost like ...
Astrobiology
Sep 23, 2025
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The TV series Alien:Earth has introduced a number of new creatures to the much loved, albeit terrifying, Alien franchise.
Astrobiology
Sep 11, 2025
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Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists. But not only are they good for understanding the kind of extreme environments that life can survive in, sometimes they are useful as actual tools, creating materials necessary ...
Space Exploration
Sep 9, 2025
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Since the dawn of human spaceflight, scientists have carefully studied the effects of space and microgravity on astronauts. After decades of observations and examinations, one truth is certain: space is brutal on the human ...
Space Exploration
Sep 9, 2025
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Organic molecules detected in the watery plumes that spew out from cracks in the surface of Enceladus could be formed through exposure to radiation on Saturn's icy moon, rather than originating from deep within its sub-surface ...
Astrobiology
Sep 9, 2025
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At first glance, Saturn's moon Enceladus seems rather unremarkable: it is much smaller than the Earth's moon and is far away and completely covered in ice.
Astrobiology
Aug 29, 2025
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Sometime in the 2040s, humans may well reach a new frontier—Mars. To get there, we'll need sustainable sources of food, medicines and materials.
Agriculture
Aug 27, 2025
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This week, Russia is expected to launch its Bion-M No.2 biosatellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying 75 mice and 1,500 fruit flies.
Space Exploration
Aug 20, 2025
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When the Crew-11 astronauts launched to the International Space Station on August 1, 2025, they carried with them another chapter in space farming: the latest VEG-03 experiments, complete with seed pillows ready for planting.
Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2025
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