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  "id": 15066514,
  "title": "Plants shift gene activity within minutes of entering spaceflight, experiment reveals",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/plants-shift-gene-activity-within-minutes-of-entering-spaceflight",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-16T23:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-shift-gene-minutes-spaceflight-reveals.html"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Plants begin responding to spaceflight almost immediately after leaving Earth, according to a new University of Florida study that captured the earliest stages of biological adaptation during a commercial suborbital mission. Published in the journal npj Microgravity, the study reports the results of an experiment conducted by a UF astronaut during Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-26 flight on Aug.…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}