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How salmon help keep a huge rainforest thrivingthe Great bear Rainforest is vital to the health of the planet.

Can you cook fries in space? If humans ever voyage to a planet far bigger than Earth,

the journey is sure to be arduous and full of danger. But there's a consolation: french fries cooked at the planet's surface will be crispier.

That's one way of interpreting new research investigating how unusual gravity changes the physics of deep-frying.

Preparing food in space presents unique challenges. Apart from the obvious difficulties of floating crumbs

plenty of thought has gone already into methods of improving food preparation in space, to enhance tastiness

Still, astronauts sometimes lament the drabness of their pre-prepared space meals, and have expressed even cravings for fries.

That's part of the reason why Lioumbas and Karapantsios decided to study deep-frying in space.

(or want to brave the free-falling Vomit Comet aircraft used by space agencies, which is enough to put anyone off their fries),

Lioumbas and Karapantsios fixed a deep-fryer containing potato sticks in half a litre of hot oil onto the end of the 8m-long arms of the Large Diameter Centrifuge at the European Space Research

but for now it looks as though fries in space are off the menu. If you would like to comment on this story

But in the 21st Century, urban green space is tasked with doing far more than simply providing aesthetic appeal.

No two green spaces are quite the same. Planners are already starting to work towards this vision.

which provide multiple uses in a confined space, and a term coined by Richard Pouyat of the US Forest Service.

 We can greatly enhance the utility of green space through designs that provide a range of different uses in a confined space.

Currently, green space and street plantings are relatively similar throughout the Western world, regardless of differences in local climate, geography, and natural history.

and natural spaces do more. Nan Ellin of the Ecological Planning Center in the US, advocates an asset-based approach to urbanism.

when it comes to creating urban green space. In Cairns, Australia, the local master plan embraces tropical urbanism that conveys a sense of place through landscaping features,

which sees parks from Boston to Brisbane looking worryingly similar oe will diminish in importance as future urban green space will be attuned to local values and cultural perceptions of beauty.

and store energy from wind and the Sun. As designs improve oe and get cheaper oe the idea of a home on the ocean will become more affordable.

the design team Koetter Kim suggested cooling towers could be replaced by recirculating water through green space such as wetlands, walls of vegetation, agriculture and fountains.

Moving this process from a tower into a chain of cooling landscapes adds green spaces to the environment

If these spaces fail to perform oe because of a lack of understanding about their functioning oe the results can be costly and environmentally damaging.

as featured in Lost in Space, Silent Running and The Fifth Element, in which Leeloo puts chicken pills into a microwave

So if we do ever send astronauts to Mars they might be tucking into freshly printed pizza.

the disturbingly more-ish soda made from the secretions of giant extraterrestrial slugs in Futurama.

Why wet dogs are a Mars rover's best frienda Golden Labrador shaking itself dry may sound like a mundane topic for a film.

but may also help design future Mars rovers. The idea for the film came about

He hopes that it could become the basis of self-cleaning robot oe a potentially useful design for Mars rovers

So, perhaps in the not too distant future, Mars rovers will shake their circuits in a similar way to a dog emerging from a pond.

we'll make sure Earth Unplugged gets one on film before its long journey to the Red planet.

Elon musk's mission to Mars Rory Carroll Guardian 17 july 2013 Interview with space pioneer:""We're in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case.

or events that have the potential to divert us from the trajectory we have been creating for the planet in recent decades.

Already 40%of the planet's land surface is used for agriculture. To interrupt the flow of wholesale land conversion,

using the Sun's energy. Most plants, including most crops, use a chemical pathway for photosynthesis that binds three carbon atoms from the air.

Over the past century, humans have been transforming the planet so profoundly that we are pushing it into a new geological era, the Anthropocene (the Age of man.

or events that have the potential to radically alter our planet. The first one is a pessimistic one for humans:

Poverty in HIV-hit southern Africa means it has the lowest per capita greenhouse gas emissions on the planet.

Our species impact on the planet would diminish substantially as a result of our few numbers and global capability.

The planet wouldn't be the same as it was in preindustrial times a few centuries ago oe the signs of our Anthropocene interference would still be there,

but it would perhaps no longer be dominated a human planet. Wouldn't it be great to achieve some of these desirable planetary outcomes without the horrific suffering of a global pandemic?

new public gathering spaces could be layered softly, their resilient woven fabrics arranged in multiple hovering skins.

and extends into surrounding space, extending tendrils and plumes and interacting with the layers of the air that surrounds us.

and dispersing around our bodies might become a tangible part of future public urban space. In the hands of new researchers

and closing solar powered sunflower umbrellas capture the sun's rays during the day and fold at night releasing stored heat in a continual cycle.

By following the projection of the sun, continuous shade is provided to the main plaza of the city.

creating a much healthier planet for all creatures great and small. Â For more in our Building Tomorrow series, click here.

the rest of the planet should be free to rewild, to revert to a more natural state.

they would require a further four planets-worth of land to satisfy their resource demands.

Currently, urban areas cover around 2%of the planet's land area but by 2030, they could stretch to almost 10%of the world's land surface.

Parks and green spaces will be multiplied from ground level upwards attracting birds and wildlife to sky-gardens, tens of floors up.

Creative growers are already converting industrial spaces, street corners and rooftops to micro-wildernesses or manicured into formal gardens.

Wafer-thin artificial leaves separate with the rising sun as buildings wake up. They continue to follow the sunlight over the course of the day,

These substances are filtered into the fleshy fabric within the walls of our homes, not dead spaces but active processors,

and realise our urban spaces in new ways, since they are adaptable, robust and have an incredible ability to transform one thing into another.

Lungs of the planetit accounts for more than half of the planet's remaining rainforest and  is home to more than half the world's species of plants and animals.

primarily to make space for cattle and soybean production. But the soil exposed by this clearing is only productive for a short period of time

But this felling also has an impact on the planet as a whole because the forest also plays a critical role in cleaning the air we breathe.

and the hidden contribution this great forest makes in helping regulate the planets climate. If you would like to comment on this video

We can give a satellite an artificial eye that can photograph your backyard from space,

many of the speeches at the five star Movenpick hotel were marked by the techno-enthusiasm that have made TED famous:

You need honeybees, space, wild flowers and ample time to for the bees to pollinate and produce it.

the underground lab searching for wimps Robin Mckee Observer 18 november 2012at Gran Sasso National Laboratory, nearly a mile beneath an Italian mountain range, scientists are trying to isolate the particles they believe hold the universe together.

Dark matter is believed to permeate the universe in the form of weakly interacting massive particles oe

we are the biggest force in moving the planet's rocks and sediments around. Our global extractions are environmentally damaging

The ants calculate the direction they walk by calculating the angle of their path relative to the position of the sun,

And what's more, the ants constantly update their calculations to correct for the sun's march across the sky.

each scout communicates the location of the space they found by performing a waggle dance in front of their hive mates.

as if they were participating in some insect version of Dancing with the Stars. Some simply stop dancing,

75%of all mammal species will have disappeared from this planet. That's the startling prediction from Anthony Barnosky, a palaeobiologist at the University of California, Berkeley oe that's if the current rates of extinction continue

and made our planet what it is, there have been five mass extinctions. Each was triggered by a cataclysmic event

when a meteorite slammed into Earth, throwing up persistent clouds of debris that darkened the sky for years.

Barnosky calculates that humans are now creating a mass extinction on the same scale oe the planet's sixth one oe through a combination of habitat encroachment

and plants disappear from the planet forever. It won't just be the individual creatures that vanish,

which has left its mark on the living planet. Some species including rats, goats, rhododendron,

The combined weight of humans and the animals we've domesticated now outweighs all the wild back-boned creatures on the planet's surface by a ratio of 95 to 5

Since we have become such a dominant force on our planet, we have to decide how best to manage the situation we're creating.

even if successful for individual animals, could not be applied practically to restore the intricate diversity of life that existed before humans took over the planet.

we are the planet's gardeners. And that means we must develop our nurturing skills.

and others, discussing our impacts on the planet's biodiversity and geology, in a four-part series called The Age We Made,

Planets, pandemics and powerthe vanishing groves Ross Andersen Aeon 16 october 2012 A superb essay on the world's oldest trees, the bristlecone pines of California,

Alpha centauri and the new astronomy Lee Billings Centauri Dreams 16 october 2012 The discovery of a new planet outside our solar system is a fascinating development,

opening the way to a New Astronomy that focuses not on the edge of space and the beginning of time,

but on the nearest stars. Among the planet-hunters the question is no longer whether life exists elsewhere in the universe,

but rather how far removed the next-nearest living world might be...It seems increasingly likely that small planets exist around most if not all stars, near and far alike,

and that Alpha centauri B may possess additional worlds further out in clement, habitable orbits, tantalizingly within reach.

Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center Steven Levy Wired 17 october 2012 A visit to the beating heart of the digital age.

It's a server farm in North carolina and, says Levy, This is what makes Google Google:

That's because unlike nitrogen or oxygen, carbon dioxide molecules absorb the Sun's heat rays

it would be one of the few ways of geoengineering the planet with multiple benefits,

This balance has kept the planet at a comfortably warm average temperature of 14c (57f), compared with a chilly-18c (0f)

and it is now very likely that within the lifetime of people born today we will increase the temperature of the planet by at least 3c more than the average temperature before the industrial revolution.

so there's a limit to how much forestry we can fit on the planet. In recent years there have been attempts to remove the carbon dioxide from its source in power plants.

until the sun disappeared below the horizon and night fell over Kenya. Eleanor died the following morning at 11am.

but in order to provide food for the constantly escalating number of mouths we are running the risk of irreversibly damaging the planet.

Planting legumes that fix nitrogen can take up space in the field that many farmers would prefer to dedicate to cash crops.

which would further impact our forests and other ecological spaces. Priceless subsidieswe're already seeing the effect of this Africa,

with insulation in the space between. Compressors, condensers and refrigerants are pumped through the system to rapidly chill the milk

India's electricity grid is kind of like the sun, White explains. You get electricity every day,

except to say that it features a phase-change material that can supercool quickly in a compact space.

Some 10,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Holocene geological age, there were only around five million of us on the planet.

And the fuels used by each of us for energy have produced combined emissions that are already altering the planet's climate.

Is there a limit to how many people can be sustained on a finite planet oe and, if so, have passed we already it?

but as many of the other animals and plants we share our planet with. If you would like to comment on this article

as global citizens sharing this planet, we cannot afford for billions more people to eat

Others point out that there is more than enough environmental space on this planet for everyone to live sustainably,

And much of this is at the expense of the other water users on this planet oe all species need water

Our problem is that 97%of our planet's water is salty ocean. Of the 2. 5%that is fresh, most of it is trapped in glaciers in Antarctica, Greenland and mountains.

But the planet is finite oe there is nowhere else for us to live except Earth

if humanity is to remain in the"safe operating space  of Holocene-like conditions,

"There is no hard-line carrying capacity for the planet. Humans are very adaptive. Â Urbanisation is a good example of the human system responding to a planetary opportunity,

The safe operating space is an opportunity, Â he concedes. Rockstrom worries that reaching tipping points could send us into another state that we have no previous experience of,

respecting the biophysical limitations of our finite planet. To comment on this video or anything else you have seen on Future,

a program that still uses the power of millions of ordinary computers in screen-saver mode to help search for signs of intelligent life in the universe.

ranging from cataloguing stars in the distant corners of the universe with Galaxy Zoo to predicting the complex three dimensional structures of protein structures with Foldit.

whose cells were banked not before they vanished from the planet. But this is not stopping scientists like George Church from trying,

 Harvard's Church says his goal is not necessarily to fill the planet with mammoths

 The turn of the century also brought a fear that the planet simply could not provide enough food for its people

to be replaced by one of techno-utopianism, driven by the glamour and excitement of the space race.

In the age of space travel, meal pills were seen as the next logical step in the evolution of food oe the ultimate in efficiency and a triumph of man over nature.

High above the planet food was sucked out of silver pouches by astronauts strapped into experimental capsules that had escaped the confines of Earth.

These space powders oe that could be rehydrated into gels and were unlikely to spill out into the delicate capsules oe aimed to provide nutritionally complete meals that could be eaten through straws.

A group led by British-born plant scientist Stephen Long is trying to improve the ability of plants to harness energy from the sun. Their aim is to turbocharge photosynthesis,

and ramp up the plant's ability to harness the sun. That is easier said than done.

However, this is not the only way of increasing photosynthesis. Scientists are also exploring the idea that genes from the ancestors of modern-day plants might boost the ability of crops to harness the sun. It is well known that primitive plants known as cyanobacteria have a talent

when the first humans stumbled into focus, some 4 billion years after our planet's own emergence.

The Industrial revolution began a march towards control of the planet and its resources, which, over the past 50 years, has become truly global.

because we have become the dominant geological force on our planet. We have changed the composition of the atmosphere oe

We have changed the covering of the planet by chopping down trees (currently we fell 130

000 sq km per year, according to the Food and Agricultural organization of the United nations), rerouting rivers (we manage more than half of the planet's available freshwater)

Rock and tollwe are also reshaping the planet's rocky material oe mining and other excavation shifts four times the amount moved naturally by glaciers and rivers.

and the way they are distributed around our planet, by introducing invasive species and favouring some species over others.

which is why we have managed to"geoengineer  our planet to produce ever more food, to double human life expectancy in much of the world,

The real final frontier isnt in outer-space or inner-particle. Its in the space between mankinds ears.

That strange, mysterious and awesome mass of gray matter is more powerful and creative than any supercomputer.

from Super Mario Bros. The stars of Angry Birds do not express themselves much apart from squawks and grunts,

it was inspired by those tenacious little plants that take hold no matter how inhospitable the space. The project, designed by cmg landscape architects,

so that the space can accommodate different uses. A tree in one corner adds some scale

has yet to be corrected making turkeys one of the most curiously named birds on the planet.

A company committed to honoring the planet and the fearless spirit of every persons own loving nature.

and Europe, would send a small percentage of the suns light and heat back into space.

Different strains of crops such as wheat have significantly different levels of reflectivity, or albedo, say scientists.

an ancient one humankind has painted for centuries settlements white to reflect the sun and keep cool.

The findings were outlined in London over the weekend at the Royal Society discussion meeting Geoengineering Taking Control of our Planets Climate.

Up to now, most climate models incorporating known forces such as changes in the sun and atmosphere have predicted that volcanic explosions would disrupt the monsoon by bringing less rain to southeast Asiaut the researchers found the opposite.

#Facebook Trying to Gain a Foothold in the Location-based Social networking Space with Hot Potato Hot Potato focuses on events

squash them might be Facebooks new mantra in trying to create a foothold in the location-based social networking space.

and Hot Potato into its mobile platform, there will be no stopping this social network from virtually dominating the location-based service space before the years out potentially leaving Foursquare,

#Saving the Planet by Eating Insects and Other Creepy Crawlies A Chinese woman selling scorpions on stick in Beijing,

Saving the planet one plateful at a time does not mean cutting back on meat, according to new research:

Dramatic examples include the great migration of American blacks from the South to the industrial North over several decades of the past century, the later move of workers from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt

Many Sun Belt cities, long magnets for job seekers from economically depressed areas, have joined long-suffering Rust Belt areas as places with the highest unemployment rates.

and the school system occupies much of the extra space. Meanwhile, leaders are thinking hard about how best to revive the economy

Many climate experts say human activity is contributing to an increasingly warm planet. And now a team of researchers led by Michael Oppenheimer says rising temperatures affecting crops through floods, droughts,

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drying units and all of these things that take a lot of space, Cloud said. oei just dont see how were going to rebuild the local community-based system using mobile units.

drying units and all of these things that take a lot of space, Cloud said. oei just dont see how were going to rebuild the local community-based system using mobile units.

Much like too much time in the sun will give you a sunburn, too much time in the gloom will give you a oegloomburn.

but it is almost dark The most dazzling color is before the sun sets...Rare opportunity to see the burning clouds,

As the sun sets, the heat of the day gradually subsides, dogs bark and the muezzin leads the call to prayer.

and become stars, players like Mahamadou Diarra with Real madrid, Samuel Etoo with Inter milan and Didier Drogba with FC Chelsea.

while) our small freezer ran out of space. To throw it out would be like wasting gold.

we need to be in this space. Google is here, Apple is here. HP has been notably absent in the smartphone category obviously,

The two successful companies in this space are Apple and RIM and they have integrated hardware and software,

said the soft-spoken inventor. oetemperature from the sun does not go beyond this level in terms of heating

and all of the most unforgiving places on the planet. This coupled with the fact that it creates a year around farming operation on greatly expanded surface area has the ability to increase the earths ability to produce food a thousand fold.

The system works by mimicking the natural hydrological cycle where seawater heated by the sun,

CSP is seen currently as one of the most exciting and powerful ways of harnessing the suns energy to create power.

Like the Seawater Greenhouse, CSP works well in hot arid areas where the sun is at its most powerful.

The suns rays, collected through reflecting mirrors, are used to heat water which then produces steam to power turbines.

Will the situation on the planet truly spin out of control if the average global temperature increases by more than two degrees Celsius?

because each time you increase the salary youre actually making it more unaffordable for everybody in the rural space. oeweve found that with the mining industry.

and interpret all the data. oethis is where youve got satellites actually mapping the pastures and showing you where the water is and

#Can Charcoal Save The Planet? Terra preta means oeblack earth. More importantly, if less literally, it means fertile soilreated 1000s of years ago out of nutrient-starved rainforest dirt by the strange alchemy of charcoal.

Have dinner on the deck as the sun goes down, and then spend the night under the palm-thatched roof.

500 other aphid species on the planet) have duplicated some of their genes, said Dr. Denis Tagu,

while others cool the planet by blocking the Suns rays. Now a new study led by Nadine Unger of NASAS Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New york city offers a more intuitive way to understand whats changing the Earths climate.

Rather than analyzing impacts by chemical species, scientists have analyzed the climate impacts by different economic sectors.

as the museum has been housed in rented space. Bannister told the Victorville Daily Press that he decided to liquidate the collection after the Hesperia Recreation

and Park District told him that he would no longer be able to rent space at the Harrison Exhibit Building in Hesperia,

Heres hoping the ongoing global bee die off comes to an end soon it seems were losing some of the smartest insects on the planet.

joint-legged creepy crawlies called arthropods dominate planet Earth. Because of their success and importance, scientists have been trying for decades to out the family relationships that link lobsters to millipedes

takes up less laboratory space, and offers easy transformation, which means scientists can insert foreign DNA into it to study gene function

Anyone who has entered a confined space a room, an elevator a vehicle, etc. where someone recently smoked,

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but its a secret law of the universe. Its quarterology! Over the next decades, hundreds of animals resting metabolisms were measured or estimated, from microbes to whales.

and conserving our planet. Green is also the easiest color for the eye to see

a bird specialist. oethats incredible diversity to find in just one corner of the Amazon rainforest and rivals any other spot on the planet.

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