The availability of oxygen beyond Earth is a crucial factor for human exploration of space. We do need it to breathe after all. Already, there have been tests for extracting the precious element both in microgravity and on Mars . There is a major challenge when it comes to microgravity production, and researchers now report an effective solution that doesn’t require any new tech, just some good magnets. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

A very handy source of oxygen is water. While we do not go extracting water from comets or the dark craters of the Moon (at least not yet), being able to extract oxygen from the precious liquid can be mission-critical. The way to extract it is simple: a process known as electrolysis. Ele

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