The Pig Lung That Could (for 9 days)

A pig lung transplanted into a human body, why half our farmed calories never reach our plates, microbes that shrug off 100,000 years of ice, and asteroid dust older than the solar system itself.

SOURCES

• First-ever pig-to-human lung transplant attempted in brain-dead person in China | Live Science
• Fewer than half the calories grown on farms now reach our plates | New Scientist
• We are unlocking how frozen microbes stay alive for 100,000 years | New Scientist
• 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains dust older than the solar system itself — and traces of interstellar space | Live Science

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