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Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small asteroids actually made of, in measurable detail? Researchers at the Institute ...

Microbes have just pulled off a feat that sounds like science fiction, stripping valuable metals from a meteorite fragment while floating in weightlessness. In a carefully controlled experiment on the ...