This NASA experience is promising for fresh food on the farm in the space

[ad_1] During long trips in space, the variety of foods will be the key. A new NASA experience called Veg-PONDS 02, which astronauts have just piloted on the International Space Station, offers a chance to reach this diversity. Although the experiment used a food already grown in space, romaine lettuce, future crops could include tomatoes … Read more

Why do powerful storms seem to move from space

[ad_1] The most powerful storms whirl and spin like a pot of boiling water. With the latest NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) weather imaging satellites, this aggressive storm behavior is easily visible from space. Such a thunderous dynamic activity was on display Monday, as weather conditions were inclement weather and tornadoes swirled in the … Read more

How a synthetic genome could be used to redirect life forms

[ad_1] The biochemical language of life contains synonyms. Just as two words can have the same meaning, different combinations of "letters" in one genome can encode the same substance. Last week, scientists revealed that they had developed a reduced and fully operational version of Escherichia coli by eliminating some of these synonyms (the intestinal bacterium … Read more

Facial mites feast on skin oils, mate while you sleep

[ad_1] Remember when an insect that was flying in your mouth was one of your biggest fears of sleep? Science is here to raise the stakes. Deep Look explores a new video of microscopic facial mites that bury themselves in your pores and feast on your natural oils. They go out to mate while you … Read more

'Metasurfaces' manipulating light on a small scale could find applications in consumer technology

[ad_1] MIT mathematicians have developed a technique that quickly determines the ideal arrangement of millions of individual microscopic features on a metasurface to generate a flat lens that manipulates light in a specified manner. The team designed a metasurface on the left with millions of features. An enlarged image of the lens, to the right, … Read more

House rejects Trump's plans for NASA and Space Force – Quartz

[ad_1] President Donald Trump loves big ideas in space, but not enough to convince legislators he needs to fund them. Last week, the White House submitted a late funding request for an additional $ 1.6 billion on an Artemis Moon program project to bring astronauts back to the lunar surface by 2024. Today 39, the … Read more

Shaw Award in Astronomy awarded to Ed Stone

[ad_1] Former Director of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Edward Stone – currently David Morrisroe Professor of physics at Caltech and scientist of NASA's Voyager project mission over the past 47 years – has received the prestigious Shaw Award for Astronomy "for its leadership in the Voyager project, which has, over the years, last four decades has … Read more