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How some ‘Star Wars’ ideas became real-life science

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Daniel B. Oerther

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Blue milk may have been pure sci-fi in 1977, but in 2025, it’s on grocery shelves—and that’s not the only “Star Wars” tech coming to life. From harvesting water in the desert like Uncle Owen to dodging space debris like the Millennium Falcon, engineers and scientists are turning fiction into function. Even the Force has a real-world cousin in our own cells. Turns out, a galaxy far, far away might not be so far after all. May the Fourth may have passed, but the Star Wars legacy remains. Daniel B. Oerther with The Conversation has the full story.

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