colonize
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The discovery could help explain how disease causing microbes manage to colonize medical devices, wounds, and food processing equipment.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
The company is expected to raise tens of billions of dollars in an offering to finance plans to launch data centers in space and colonize the moon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
SpaceX is unlikely to attempt a Mars mission in 2026 after all, according to CEO Elon Musk, marking a setback in his plans to colonize the planet.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026
Adult Osedax typically live on whale bones, while their larvae travel long distances through ocean currents to colonize new whale falls, sometimes hundreds of kilometers away.
From Science Daily • Dec. 28, 2025
Historians have two primary theories to explain what allowed the Europeans to thoroughly colonize the Indigenous lands in North America.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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