colonizing

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"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

How would colonizing Mars alter us psychologically and physiologically?

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

SpaceX is pivoting away from Elon Musk’s dream of colonizing Mars and is instead focusing on something a little closer: settling the moon.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 2026

Whatever the timing and pricing turn out to be, the IPO of an Elon Musk company with aspirations of colonizing Mars will certainly be something to follow this year.

From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026

Within a few centuries, in one of the swiftest colonizing advances of recent prehistory, Bantu farmers had swept all the way to Natal, on the east coast of what is now South Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond