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In a first, oxygen and rocket fuel made using artificial photosynthesis in space
China's achievement is valuable for long-term space exploration, enabling self-sufficiency and enabling missions like a ...
China Focus: China's space station achieves breakthrough in extraterrestrial artificial photosynthesis
Among the key challenges to sustaining long-term life beyond Earth are achieving self-sufficiency and reducing reliance on Earth resource supply Uti ...
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China’s Tiangong research generates oxygen, rocket fuel in major space exploration leap
The 12 experiments took place inside a drawer ... “This technology mimics the natural photosynthesis process of green plants through engineered physical and chemical methods, utilising carbon ...
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Chinese Space Station Achieves First-Ever Oxygen and Rocket Fuel Production Using Artificial Photosynthesis
China Manned Space Engineering Office. When humans dream of venturing farther into the cosmos, one question looms: how do we ...
Study shows hot leaves can't catch carbon from the air. It's bad news for rainforests—and Earth
On the east coast of Australia, in tropical North Queensland, lies the Daintree rainforest—a place where the density of trees ...
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Reducing inorganic fertilizer in fields while sustaining healthy crops
A recent study published in Nature Communications has uncovered groundbreaking findings in plant biology, opening new doors ...
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An orchid uses a finger-like appendage to pollinate itself
More than 130 years after a fungus-eating orchid species was discovered, the purpose of its mysterious appendage has been revealed ...
Artificial photosynthesis decoded: How carbon nitride splits water (and enables green hydrogen)
Scientists have long sought to understand the exact mechanism behind water splitting by carbon nitride catalysts. For the ...
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China turns CO2 into oxygen on space station
Scientists onboard the Chinese space station, Tiangong, have successfully turned carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into ...
'Dark oxygen' mission takes aim at other worlds
Scientists who recently discovered that metal lumps on the dark seabed make oxygen, have announced plans to study the deepest parts of Earth's oceans in order to understand the strange phenomenon.