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.…
ESA and NASA to investigate bringing martian soil…
[caption id="attachment_15096" align="alignnone" width="700"] Mars[/caption] ESA and NASA signed a statement of intent today to explore concepts for missions to bring samples of martian soil to Earth. Spacecraft in orbit and on Mars’s surface have…
TU Delft E|A|S (Evolving Asteroid Starships) project
[caption id="attachment_15093" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: Design by Nils Faber & Angelo Vermeulen[/caption] A group of students and researchers at Delft University of Technology are designing a starship capable of keeping generations of crew alive as…
Surface engineering gets the red light
Perovskite particles could improve the performance of solar cells and light-emitting diodes via a simple process to stabilize the nanocrystal surface. [caption id="attachment_15090" align="alignnone" width="722"] Stabilizing optical nanocrystals without degrading their electrical properties could underpin…
Human impact on sea urchin abundance
In the longest running study of its kind, researchers found sea urchin populations were strongly affected by human-driven environmental changes. [caption id="attachment_15086" align="alignnone" width="648"] Arial view of Hatakejima Island, Wakayama where the study took place…