Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have developed a potential recipe for 3D-printing houses on Mars using ground-up Martian rock, gelatin, and yeast, with the latter two ingredients coming from Earth.
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New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 Sep. 2026
Inside a Tennessee laboratory, a robotic arm spent eight weeks 3D-printing a two-ton, six-foot-tall block of molten steel.
And Swarthmore College stopped publishing letter grades for first-semester students on transcripts in the 1970s.
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Dan Simmons,
Washington Post,
30 Sep. 2026
Highlights Press, the book publishing program of Highlights for Children, is now a top-20 children’s publisher and routinely publishes activity books, craft books and learning workbooks.
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