The idea of humans living beyond Earth was once only possible in science fiction, but now space agencies are making plans to bring space colonization closer to reality. NASA and SpaceX are exploring long-term missions to the moon and Mars, while astronomers continue to discover potentially habitable exoplanets orbiting distant stars beyond our solar system. … Read more
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Genre: Sci-Fi, YA Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book High school is hard enough. It gets a lot harder after the aliens show up.In the captivating YA science fiction novel “Colony High” by acclaimed author David Brin, the skeptical high school junior, Mark Bamford, finds himself caught up in a web of … Read more
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Colonization Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon About The Book A fragile foothold on a vast frozen plain. A crashed spaceship’s pilot may have been murdered. Will the first settlers on Mars be the last? Determined to explore with her robots, Emma Winters leaves Earth forever and makes the one-way journey. She trained … Read more
Scientists in China have created a robot chemist powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that can extract oxygen from Martian water without human supervision. Synthesizing useful resources from local materials on Mars will be essential for humans’ survival on the Red Planet. Extracting oxygen from materials — in a process called oxygen evolution reaction (OER) — is particularly … Read more
