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

That could be useful for SpaceX, which recently pushed back its plan to colonize Mars.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 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

Others, such as Elon Musk, talk about producing children as both necessary to offset declining population growth and a flex to colonize the galaxy with one’s descendants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 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