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Inside planets, extreme pressures and heat create bizarre materials. Earth’s solid inner core may host dancing iron atoms, while gas giants Uranus and Neptune likely contain superionic ice, a peculiar substance both solid and liquid. Scientists recreated this exotic ice in lab experiments, deepening our understanding of the unusual magnetic fields of these planets. This […]

In a groundbreaking achievement, researchers have cultivated mammalian embryos in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS). Molecular biologist Teruhiko Wakayama led this pioneering experiment, which marks the first instance of such development in space. While the survival rate of embryos in space was lower than on Earth, those that did survive exhibited […]