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Scientists have discovered 26 new bacterial species that survived the extreme sterilization protocols of NASA cleanrooms ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the ...

The backstory: The law began as Senate Bill 53, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, to ...