Resveratrol helps preserve muscle in space Resveratrol helps preserve muscle in space “Resveratrol treatment promotes muscle growth in diabetic or unloaded animals, by increasing insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake in the muscle fibers. This is relevant for astronauts, who are… Read More ›
Mars
Is that a Traffic Light on Mars?
Thursday, 25 September 2014 With the now increased traffic in the Red Planet’s region – since India’s satellite reached Mars’s orbit Wednesday – a traffic light might just be what’s been missing. And it didn’t take long for one… Read More ›
Russia wants permanent Moon base
Sunday, 13 April 2014 While the West is busy staging coups around the world, Moscow today set out plans to conquer and colonise space, including a permanent manned moon base. Deputy premier Dmitry Rogozin said: ‘We are coming to… Read More ›
Promoting or being involved in a one-way trip to the Red Planet is prohibited in Islam
One-way trip to Mars prohibited in Islam Ahmed Shaaban / 19 February 2014 Fatwa committee under the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the UAE says such a journey poses a real risk to life. Promoting or being… Read More ›
Is Mysterious Mars Rock a Fungus? – “obscenely incompetent” NASA
By LORRAINE BAILEY (CN) – The mysterious rock on Mars photographed by the Opportunity rover resembles an Earth fungus, but an “obscenely incompetent” NASA refused to take a closer look at it, a Ph.D. claims in a writ of mandamus…. Read More ›
First scoop of Mars soil contains 2 percent water: study
27 Sep 2013 Washington (AFP) The first scoop of Martian soil analyzed by NASA’s Curiosity rover held about two percent water, offering hope for hydrating humans who someday explore the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday. “We saw Mars as a very… Read More ›
Life DID begin on Mars – then we all travelled to Earth on a meteorite: Element crucial to the origin of life ‘would only have been available on the red planet’
Thursday, Aug 29 2013 Molybdenum mineral is thought to have been crucial to the origin of life Material may have been available on the surface of Mars and not on Earth This could suggest that life came to Earth on… Read More ›
Genetic medicine hints at bloodletting and vitamins for astronauts
26 June 2013 by Jacob Aron Magazine issue 2923. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the Space flight and Genetics Topic Guides BLOODLETTING and vitamin pills are the future for astronaut health regimes. So hints a provocative proposal… Read More ›
One giant leap for reptiles: Have alien-hunters found a lizard on Mars?
Samuel Muston Wednesday, 29 May 2013 While studying pictures of Mars sent back to Earth by the Curiosity rover, a Japanese alien-enthusiast spotted something between the endless plain of rocks spread out on the screen in front of him…. Read More ›
Applicants wanted for 1 way trip to Mars
Wednesday, 17 April 2013 Want to go to Mars? Dutch organisation Mars One says it will open applications imminently. It would be a one-way trip, and the company hopes to build a community of settlers on the… Read More ›
Mars has Front-Row Seat for 2014 Comet
Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1), discovered in January and now inbound from the Oort Cloud, promises to put on a spectacular show in October 2014 — for the spacecraft on and around Mars. . We’re just a couple weeks away… Read More ›
Mars Could Be Hit By Comet C/2013 A1 With Billion-Megaton Impact / Will show brighter than a full moon
Huffington Post UK | By Michael Rundle Posted: 04/03/2013 09:53 GMT | Updated: 04/03/2013 10:12 GMT Mars could be hit by a comet with the power of a billion megatons in 2014, astronomers have said. The comet C/2013 A1 was discovered earlier… Read More ›
Mars could be hit by comet next year – ” solar system may be left without Mars / collision is very likely “
– Mar 4, 2013 21:37 Moscow Time Margarita Bogatova, Alexei Lyakhov © Photo: SXC.hu The solar system may be left without Mars as experts predict that comet C/2013 A1 measured at about 50 km in diameter will hit the planet… Read More ›
Melt water on Mars could sustain life
Contact: Andreas Johnsson andreasj@gvc.gu.se 46-031-786-2943 University of Gothenburg Near surface water has shaped the landscape of Mars. Areas of the planet’s northern and southern hemispheres have alternately thawed and frozen in recent geologic history and comprise striking similarities to the… Read More ›
Apocalypse and salvation strategy
Boris Pavlishev Nov 9, 2012 16:18 Moscow Time http://www.nasa.gov Life forms on Earth may fully disappear in 2,8 billion years, according to a survey conducted by British scientists earlier this year. The survey said that temperature increase depends both on… Read More ›
Sacre bleu! Mystery of French bees making coloured honey is solved… after keepers find M&M waste plant nearby
Beekeepers around the town of Ribeauville in the region of Alsace have seen bees returning to their hives carrying unidentified colourful substances Biogas plant has been processing waste from a Mars plant producing M&M’s in bright red, blue, green, yellow… Read More ›
Lost in migration: Earth’s magnetic field overdue a flip
By Chris WickhamPosted 2012/10/03 at 11:41 am EDT LONDON, Oct. 3, 2012 (Reuters) — The discovery by NASA rover Curiosity of evidence that water once flowed on Mars – the most Earth-like planet in the solar system – should intensify… Read More ›
Private Manned Mars Mission Gets First Sponsors
A Dutch company that aims to land humans on Mars in 2023 as the vanguard of a permanent Red Planet colony has received its first funding from sponsors, officials announced this week. Mars One plans to fund most of its… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 