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How does a city-state with almost no natural freshwater now supply up to 40 percent of its national water demand from treated used water pushed through advanced membranes?
Tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space, temperatures near absolute zero, and radiation doses lethal to humans, but a Penn State-led team found that the MGS-1 Mars regolith simulant killed the tested H. exemplaris freshwater specimens within two days, while a terrestrial sand control stayed active
When Howard Carter's team opened Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the inventory included alabaster jars of dark residue that legend turned into still-edible honey, sealed around 1323 BCE and never actually identified by any chemist who tested it — a Yale team now suspects opium
In November 1957, Soviet sources told the world that the dog Laika had survived several days aboard Sputnik 2, but at a 2002 space congress in Houston, scientist Dimitri Malashenkov revealed she had actually died within hours of launch when the cabin overheated
