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Thursday, 1 January 2015

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New Project to Grow Lettuce on Mars

New Project to Grow Lettuce on Mars
New Project to Grow Lettuce on Mars A student team in the UK plans to grow lettuce on Mars by 2018 using the atmosphere and sunlight on the red planet. LettuceOnMars, a student project from the University of Southampton Spaceflight Society, has reached the finals of an international competition, run by Mars One, a Dutch non-profit organisation, to land experiments on Mars. It is one of the ten short-listed university projects that was selected for technical feasibility and popularity.The winning payload will arrive on Mars in 2018 together with the official Mars One...
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Wi-Fi may allow ISS robots to move around freely

Wi-Fi may allow ISS robots to move around freely
Wi-Fi may allow ISS robots to move around freely Robots at the International Space Station may soon be able to move around freely with help from the ISS's existing Wi-Fi. Astronauts have shared the ISS with three small robots called SPHERES since 2006.The robots are there to test whether menial tasks on the station can be automated, freeing up astronauts to do more interesting things.At the moment, the bots are confined to a 2-metre-wide cube marked out by five ultrasound beacons, which transmit a locating signal that works like GPS does on Earth,...
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New Microscopic Motion Detector Could Find Alien Life

New Microscopic Motion Detector Could Find Alien Life
New Microscopic Motion Detector Could Find Alien Life??  Swiss researchers have tested a new kind of life-detection device that's sensitive to motion rather than organic chemistry — and they say it could be used on future space missions to look for alien life. Closer to home, the mechanical nanosensor could verify whether a given drug has really, truly killed off cancer cells or nasty bacteria. "The system has the benefit of being completely chemistry-free," Giovanni Dietler of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, or EPFL, said in a news release. The sensor is basically...