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

It took three years, but in 1983, Crisafulli found evidence that the first microscopic plants had begun to colonize the lake.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone