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Chickpeas can grow in moon dirt and make seeds

Homegrown chickpeas could be on the menu for future astronauts. With help from compost and symbiotic fungi, chickpea plants grow and produce seeds in simulated lunar dirt, researchers report March 5 in Scientific Reports. “I’m obsessed with the plant,” says fluid dynamicist Sara Oliveira Santos of the University of Texas at Austin. “The fact that…

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Katharine Burr Blodgett kept an inner struggle out of sight as she made history in the laboratory

Katharine Burr Blodgett’s relatives lead the Lost Women of Science production team to a collection of papers and artifacts stored in a New England storage unit, revealing an inner struggle that she kept carefully out of sight—even as she was making history in the laboratory. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST On supporting science journalism If you’re…

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