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Building ‘better’ astronauts through genetic engineering could be key to colonizing other planets

Cherrie Newman | 
Through genetic engineering, we will one day have the ability to thrive in harsh alien environments ...
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How NASA’s struggle with radiation-resistant microbe could help us understand infections

Meredith Knight | 
Bacteria have infiltrated sterile rooms NASA used to build space equipment. Studying what happens to them in outer space could ...
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Colonial warfare: Were smallpox-infected blankets given to Native Americans?

Patrick Kiger | 
North American colonists’ warfare against Native Americans often was horrifyingly brutal. But one method they appear to have used shocks even more ...
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Using synthetic biology to help humans adapt to a life on Mars

Jestin George | 
Synthetic biology could solve many problems that Mars colonization brings up ...
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Viewpoint: Space colonization could be a really bad idea for humanity

Phil Torres | 
[W]ould colonization of space lead to a dystopia? In a recent article in Futures, which was inspired by political scientist Daniel Deudney’s forthcoming ...
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Deep-space travel, colonization may rely on genetically engineered life forms

David Warmflash | 
Space exploration fires the imagination but presents many practical challenges—among them, how humans or organisms chosen to accompany us can ...
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