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Feeding Your Pets Bugs Could Actually Be Good for The Planet
Insect-based pet food could take a substantial bite out of carbon emissions in the meat industry, and startup Petgood is leading the charge.
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Scientists Discover Vampiric Viruses That ‘Bite’ Other Viruses for Survival
Viruses are somehow even weirder than we thought. In a recent study published last month, scientists say they’ve discovered two new viruses that hijack the machinery of other bacteria-infecting viruses in order to replicate themselves. One of these vampiric viruses even acts the part, appearing to “bite” and latch onto their helper virus so that…
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NASA-Funded Mission to the Moon’s Far Side Is Starting to Look Pretty Cool
Firefly Aerospace’s upcoming visit to the Moon’s far side will now include SPIDER—a device for probing the lunar subsurface.
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Seeing Double: Lucy’s First Target Asteroid Has a Tiny Moon
As NASA’s Lucy spacecraft zoomed past its first asteroid on Wednesday, its mission scientists made a surprising discovery of a bonus space rock. The first images sent over by the Lucy mission of its brief rendezvous with the main asteroid belt revealed a binary pair, with a tiny satellite closely orbiting Dinkinesh, NASA announced on…