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NASA Harvests Lettuce for Space Station Study
NASA Harvests Lettuce for Space Station Study NASA has harvested lettuce from its Advanced Plant Habitat ground unit as part of an experiment to study plant growth in microgravity. The experiment aims to understand how optimal and suboptimal moisture conditions affect plant growth, nutrient content, and the plant microbiome in space. This research is part […]
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‘Power bars’ could keep bees thriving without pollen
‘Power bars’ could keep bees thriving without pollen Scientists have developed a new food source for honey bees that can sustain them indefinitely without natural pollen, addressing one of the growing challenges faced by the species: lack of adequate nutrition. The innovative “power bar” resembles human energy bars and contains all the nutrients honey bees […]
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