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Genshin Impact’s Sumeru update will add beautiful rainforest and desert biomes
Genshin Impact’s impending Sumeru update is set to add some beautiful new areas to explore, and the game’s developers shared a look at some of the new…
A Tool for Fighting Superbugs Has Been Found Deep in the Desert
And there are undoubtedly many more bacteria out there that could give us useful new antibiotics to use. But if you find what appears to be a promising one,…
Bizarre meat-eating dinosaur joins ‘Rogues’ Gallery’ of giant predators from…
An Egyptian-American team of researchers has announced the discovery of a new kind of large-bodied meat-eating dinosaur, or theropod, from a celebrated…
Low-cost gel film can pluck drinking water from desert air
More than a third of the world's population lives in drylands, areas that experience significant water shortages. Scientists and engineers at The University…
These solar panels pull in water vapor to grow crops in the desert
A schematic of WEC2P deployed in an arid region. Credit: Renyuan Li…
It’s time for Disney’s Star Wars shows to move away from desert planets
If you'll indulge me for a moment, please cast your mind back to late 2017, when it when it was first announced that Disney would be creating its first…
Dune’s Desert Planet Arrakis Simulated by Scientists to See How Realistic It Is. Here’s What…
American author Frank Herbert described a fictitious world in the 1960s in his epic sci-fi book series Dune, which has now been turned into a movie of the…
Three-eyed ‘dinosaur shrimp’ emerge by the hundreds from Arizona desert
Hundreds of three-eyed "dinosaur shrimp" sprouted out of the northern Arizona desert this summer after a rare downpour created small pools of water that…
Life on Mars: Simulating Red Planet Base in Israeli Desert for Astronaut Training
Inside a huge crater in Israel's sun-baked Negev desert, a team wearing space suits ventures forth on a mission to simulate conditions on Mars. The Austrian…