Scientists Successfully Mine Meteorites for Precious Metals on International Space Station

Last week, GNN reported that fungi were being trailed by scientists in Austria for their potential to extract valuable metals from electronic and industrial wastes. Now from the ISS comes a very similar story where, rather than ‘mushroom mining,’ scientists were able to extract platinum and palladium with ‘microbe mining.’ It’s actually ‘microbe meteorite mining,’ […] The post Scientists Successfully Mine Meteorites for Precious Metals on International Space Station appeared first on Good News Network .