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City waste could support urban farming

Posted on March 17, 2025October 1, 2025 by Madeline Taylor

Researchers found that adding city waste products to local farms promoted a healthy soil microbiome and improved how tomatoes taste.

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    Future telescopes could search for alien farms

    Posted on April 12, 2022June 25, 2025 by Jacob Haqq Misra

    Simulations suggest that the light observed from a distant planet around another star might be able to show evidence of ammonia and nitrous…

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      Bacteria that live on plant roots are important for farming

      Posted on January 24, 2022October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

      Scientists used DNA sequencing to identify what microbes live on or near the root systems of farmed and wild wheat. They found that farmed…

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        Growing plants on the surface of the Moon and Mars

        Posted on October 5, 2020October 24, 2022 by Sciworthy

        The reality of being able to live and settle on Martian or lunar bases can seem like it is getting close. To do this, we need to be able to…

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