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IN A NUTSHELL 🌾 The Moon-Rice project is developing “super-dwarf” rice to support long-duration space missions and extreme Earth environments. 🛰️ Led by the Italian Space Agency, the project involves collaboration between three Italian universities specializing in rice genetics, crop physiology, and space crop production. 🔬 The research focuses on using CRISPR-Cas technology to create compact, productive rice varieties that …

Last month, the staff at Raven Ridge Wildlife Center (RRWC) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, received a distressing call from a man over an hour away in Halifax. The man seemed frantic as he described the tiny feathered baby he’d just spontaneously rescued from a dangerous situation. “A kind-hearted man named Michael spotted the tiny creature alongside the road and instinctively pulled …

Science museum discovers dinosaur fossils hidden under its parking lot  The Washington Post A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like ‘a hole in one from the moon.’  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos Museum discovers rare 67-million-year-old dinosaur bone under its own parking lot  Fox News Denver museum discovers nearly 70-million-year-old fossil under parking …

Humanity’s future can look pretty gloomy. From asteroids the size of football stadiums to nuclear war and man-made pandemics, it can seem as if humankind is in constant danger of being wiped out – and, in many ways, it is. Over the past three years, I have interviewed hundreds of experts working to prevent Doomsday, from eminent scientists and engineers …