deepai WASHINGTON, Feb 26 – Growing crops on the moon or Mars may one day be possible by recycling human and plant waste into fertilizer, according to research published in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.…
First test success for large Mars mission parachute
[caption id="attachment_14855" align="alignnone" width="625"] ExoMars 2020 parachute deployment sequence[/caption] The largest parachute ever to fly on a Mars mission has been deployed in the first of a series of tests to prepare for the upcoming…
Potential Biomarkers in Animals Could Signal Ebola Infection…
Scientists have identified potential biomarkers in nonhuman primates exposed to Ebola virus (EBOV) that appeared up to four days before the onset of fever, according to research published today in the journal Science Translational Medicine. The…
Tokyo
[caption id="attachment_14848" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by ESA[/caption] The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over the Japanese capital of Tokyo. Tokyo lies on the eastern shore of the island…
“Tougher-than-metal” fibre-reinforced hydrogels
Hokkaido University scientists have developed ‘fibre-reinforced soft composites’, that are extremely flexible and five times stronger than carbon steel. [caption id="attachment_14844" align="alignnone" width="750"] The newly developed fibre-reinforced hydrogel consists of polyampholyte (PA) gels and glass…