Czech lab grows mustard plants for Mars
Czech scientists have opened a lab to experiment growing food for environments with extreme conditions and lack of water, such as Mars....
Time for fungus? Indonesian watchmaker turns to mushroom leather
A watchmaker in Indonesia’s Bandung city thinks the next step in sustainability is a wristwatch with a strap made out of the complex root structure...
Humankind’s ancestral ‘homeland’ pinpointed in Botswana
A large ancient wetlands region spanning northern Botswana – once teeming with life but now dominated by desert and salt flats – may represent the...
Secretive military spaceplane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight
The Pentagon’s secretive X-37B spaceplane landed in Florida on Sunday after a record-long orbital flight lasting more than two years, the U.S. Air Force said,...
Post-apocalyptic fossils show rise of mammals after dinosaur demise
A revelatory cache of fossils dug up in central Colorado details as never before the rise of mammals from the post-apocalyptic landscape after an asteroid...
Manure, trash and wastewater: U.S. utilities get dirty in climate fight
Joey Airoso has always been proud of his cows, whose milk goes into the butter sold by national dairy company Land O’Lakes. Now he has...
U.S. tech firm Maxar taps startup’s robotics for moon mission
U.S. technology company Maxar Technologies Inc said it picked software developed by space startup Olis Robotics to run a robotic lunar lander that’s part of...
Musk’s satellite project testing encrypted internet with military planes
The Air Force is using SpaceX’s fledgling satellite network to test encrypted internet services for a number of military planes, the space company’s president said...
Two thumbs up – or is it four? Odd lemur has evolved extra ‘finger’
For a strange little lemur native to Madagascar that boasts one of the most unusual hands in the animal kingdom, a “high five” is more...
Bezos’s Blue Origin partners with Lockheed, others on moon lander
U.S. billionaire Jeff Bezos said on Tuesday his space company Blue Origin has signed agreements with Lockheed Martin Corp , Northrop Grumman Corp and research...