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The International Space Station is a crewed laboratory in low Earth orbit where partner space agencies test technology, study life in microgravity, observe Earth, and learn how humans can live and work away from the planet for long periods.
The Human Genome Project was an international research effort, launched in 1990 and completed in 2003, that produced the first reference sequence of the human genome and helped transform biology, medicine, data sharing, and genomic technology.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a NASA-ESA space observatory launched in 1990 that studies the universe from Earth orbit, producing landmark images and data about galaxies, stars, planets, nebulae, black holes, and the expansion of the cosmos.
The Haber-Bosch process is the industrial method that combines nitrogen from air with hydrogen to make ammonia, turning an abundant but hard-to-use element into fertilizer, chemicals, and one of the central technologies behind modern agriculture.
The Green Revolution was a mid-20th-century transformation in farming that spread high-yield wheat and rice varieties, irrigation, fertilizer, and research networks, helping many countries raise grain harvests while also creating new social and environmental challenges.
Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars outside our solar system, revealing that planetary systems are common and diverse, from hot Jupiters and super-Earths to rocky worlds that may help scientists study habitability.
Evolution is the change in inherited traits of populations over generations, explaining how life diversifies, adapts, shares common ancestry, and produces the patterns seen in fossils, genomes, anatomy, behavior, and ecosystems.
CRISPR is a family of bacterial immune systems adapted into genome editing tools, letting scientists guide enzymes such as Cas9 to chosen DNA sequences so genes can be disrupted, repaired, studied, or rewritten with unusual speed and flexibility.
Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing crossing the event horizon can escape, formed by collapsed massive stars, mergers, or the growth of enormous compact objects in galactic centers.
Antibiotic resistance happens when bacteria evolve or acquire ways to survive drugs that once controlled them, making infections harder to treat and threatening surgery, cancer care, intensive care, childbirth, and other parts of modern medicine that depend on effective antibiotics.