RegularJoe@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agoScientists Have Just Successfully Grown Chickpeas In Simulated Moon Dirt For The First Time Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi To Absorb Nutrients And Water. dailygalaxy.comexternal-linkmessage-square68linkfedilinkarrow-up1500arrow-down17cross-posted to: soilscience@slrpnk.net
arrow-up1493arrow-down1external-linkScientists Have Just Successfully Grown Chickpeas In Simulated Moon Dirt For The First Time Using Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi To Absorb Nutrients And Water. dailygalaxy.comRegularJoe@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 days agomessage-square68linkfedilinkcross-posted to: soilscience@slrpnk.net
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-218 hours agoI started out wondering if this simulation would work again in lunar gravity, and now we also need vermiculture to work in lunar gravity.
minus-squareprettybunnys@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-218 hours agoWe’re already working on worms in space! https://www.esa.int/kids/en/news/Worms_in_space Granted these aren’t the works we’d make vermicompost from … but still steps in that direction
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 hours agoCool. Sadly it doesn’t seem like it was even a goal for those worms to survive.
I started out wondering if this simulation would work again in lunar gravity, and now we also need vermiculture to work in lunar gravity.
We’re already working on worms in space!
https://www.esa.int/kids/en/news/Worms_in_space
Granted these aren’t the works we’d make vermicompost from … but still steps in that direction
Cool. Sadly it doesn’t seem like it was even a goal for those worms to survive.