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In 2004, researchers noticed an infant marmoset travelling with a group of capuchin monkeys at the Green Wing Valley wildlife reserve in Brazil.

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

but the gastronomic preferences of future astronauts are the genuine motivation for experiments conducted by chemists John Lioumbas and Thodoris Karapantsios of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

That's why their work is supported by the European space agency. Preparing food in space presents unique challenges.

And if you wanted to cook with a naked flame oe perhaps unlikely inside a space station oe the shape of the flame would be compact and round,

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

That's where their wing sacs come in. The sacs, found on the inside of the wing, are 8-10mm in length,

which is given large the animal's size. Despite the presence of what researchers call odiferous content oe smelly stuff, basically oe within the wing sac,

there isn't a scent gland inside. Instead of excreting directly into the sac males transfer fluids from other parts of their body into them.

Thus wing sacs could also be called holding sacs or perfume containers, says Christian Voigt, of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin.

and then transferring it by licking the interior of their wing-sacs. They then bend forward as before,

before transferring the mixture to their wing sacs. This continues until both sacs have a sufficient amount of bat perfume.

and flaps his wings horizontally to blow the air scented with his perfume over her.

and refilling his wing sacs strongly suggests that perfume oe and smells, more generally oe plays a fundamental role in the social communication of this species. It also means that bat noses,

Nasa recently admitted that as part of a programme"to turn science fiction into fact  they are funding work to develop a 3d food printer.

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

near Amboseli, a game park in southwestern Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service has collared  several lions with tracking devices that send text messages to cell phones of rangers

and satellite signals, allowing rangers to track them via Google earth. In Central Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy

owners plan to start test-flying a $75, 000 drone to live-stream information on the rhinos to rangers on the ground.

 says Steven Barrett, assistant professor of astronautics and aeronautics at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT), and the director of the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment."

chief technology officer (CTO) at Boeing, recently told me.""Probably 75%of the research and development dollars we invest in the commercial airplane side goes towards improving our environmental footprint.

But people like Boeing's Dr Tracey believe it will happen.""We are convinced that sustainable biofuels can provide a way to reduce the CO2 by between 60 and 80%on an airplane,

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

The data came from Lamonts new 1, 000-year tree-ring atlas of Asian weather,

He also created Aileron, a campus for entrepreneurs that promotes professional management practices as the keys to business success. S. Truett Cathychick-fil-A Net Worth:

almost looks like a spaceship amid the surrounding houses. It sits on the site of a former landfill.

Ancient astronauts? A new study of 16 of what are called desert kites in the eastern Sinai desert confirms

the rangers can then marshal reinforcements from the nearby fire station to put out the fire. DEVICE WORKS ON SOLAR POWER The system is suitable in areas where there is no electricity supply

His talks on futurist topics have captivated people ranging from high level of government officials to executives in Fortune 500 companies including NASA, IBM, AT&T, Hewlett-packard

Unilever, GE, Blackmont Capital, Lucent Technologies, First Data, Boeing, Ford motor Company, Qwest, Allied Signal, Hunter Douglas, Direct TV, Capital One

Then the Canadian rebel turned his attention to the far more important temperature curves of the recent past, those of Phil Jones and of his comrade-in-arms at NASA, James Hansen.

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.

Thats the kind of crap youd expect astronauts to eat as a last resort when supplies are low and a Donner Party mentality is starting to creep in.

It isnt clear whether Webbs entry into Nevada gaming inspired Howard Hughes entry. They shared interests in flying and played golf together in the 1940s.

After Hughes lapsed into eccentricity and reclusiveness, Webb was one of the few people Hughes would meet with face to face.

Johnson told Webbs biographer how those meetings were arranged. oehe would call Mr. Webb, give him directions like Go 10 miles to a dirt road,

But whatever Hughes wanted the company did it. Webb did more than $1 billion worth of business with Hughes. Unlike the group of hotels that Hughes would assemble,

Webb operations were innovative. It was the Sahara that sponsored the Beatles appearance in Las vegas in 1964.

It isnt clear whether Webbs entry into Nevada gaming inspired Howard Hughes entry. They shared interests in flying and played golf together in the 1940s.

After Hughes lapsed into eccentricity and reclusiveness, Webb was one of the few people Hughes would meet with face to face.

Johnson told Webbs biographer how those meetings were arranged. oehe would call Mr. Webb, give him directions like Go 10 miles to a dirt road,

But whatever Hughes wanted the company did it. Webb did more than $1 billion worth of business with Hughes. Unlike the group of hotels that Hughes would assemble,

Webb operations were innovative. It was the Sahara that sponsored the Beatles appearance in Las vegas in 1964.

and adding some flavor is extended essential for periods astronauts spend in orbit. You cant expect an average meal on the International Space station to be like a night at the Ritz,

but no ones complaining. The ambiance of orbital dining apparently more than compensates for lackluster meals. But astronauts have a few standby favorites as well as the occasional special treat.

Dinners in space have come a long way since the start of the Space age but which cosmic gastronomic delights are the best?

Japanese Takeout The addition of Japans laboratory to the space station not only provided a huge new module for science experiments,

In 2008, the shuttle Endeavour astronauts were happy to serve as guinea pigs for a variety of new dishes,

a Thai chicken dish and vegetable curry for the crew of space shuttle Discovery in December 2006.

It wasnt the first time a celebrity chef tried to perk up astronaut cuisine though#Emeril Lagasses spicy green beans,

which were among five dishes flown to the space station earlier that year, apparently held up well in zero-gravity. 8. Yogurt Bone loss is a problem during long-duration spaceflights,

Astronauts can choose from blueberry-raspberry, peach and strawberry. The Russians go one better with garlic-and herb-studded cheeses.

Theres no one to make chicken soup for rundown astronauts. The next best thing might be chicken consomme.

tortillas are the bread of the space program. One of the favored fillings: good old peanut butter and jelly.

On special occasions, astronauts have managed to bring up other yeasty specialties, including bagels (imported from the family bakery of Canadian-born astronaut Greg Chamitoff)

and German pumpernickel bread. 5. Shrimp Among the lessons six-time flier Story Musgrave passed along to rookie astronauts:

Eat shrimp cocktail. The dehydrated crustaceans, coated in a spicy sauce, are requested the most food item in NASAS space pantry.

Musgrave ate them at every meal#including breakfast. 4. Hot sauce A squirt of hot sauce can do wonders to wake up taste buds deadened by weightlessness,

#in NASA parlance, but you and I would call them M&ms. Itd be a tough call

whether astronauts like eating them or playing with them best. What we do know is that the colorful orbs show well on TV. 2. Dried produce Fresh fruits

so astronauts make do with a variety of canned and dried offerings. Russian cuisine presents another option:

but after a few months in orbit, apparently folks will try anything to break up the monotony. 1. Mystery Meals Space station flight engineer Garrett Reisman kept the cameras rolling

while he sat down to dinner with his Russian crewmates and visiting shuttle astronauts in June 2008.

One of the more dramatic applications of plant-growing chambers under LED lights was by NASA

which installed them in the Space shuttle and the space station Mir in the 1990s as part of its experiment with microgravity.

One town pilot-tested a shuttle for seniors to supplement barebones public transit. The Atlanta Housing Authority is working with the commission to retrofit high-rise apartments that house a lot of older residents,

Video and pics) The stunning design resembles a spaceship;##it will be four stories and house 12,000.

They have wings and can fly far,##Leskey says. The wild population is increasing and moving from state to state#Hoelmer says.

#Visa and Mastercard now dominate the major tracks that shuttle credit card and debit payments between banks and retailers.

and deforestation, said study leader David Hughes, an entomologist at Penn State university. Hughes and colleagues made the discovery after noticing a wide diversity of fungal growths emerging from ant victims,

according to the March 2 study in the journal PLOS ONE. It is tempting to speculate that each species of fungus has its own ant species that it is adapted best to attack#

Hughes said. This potentially means thousands of zombie fungi in tropical forests across the globe await discovery,

Hughes said. Other fungus species develop explosive spores on infected ants bodies. When other ants come near the cadavers,

and parasites, study author Hughes noted. That means the fungi are locked often into one type of host#specialization that might spell doom for fungi species as host species die out.

fungi help keep nature working smoothly, Hughes added. They may be less cuddly than pandas#but for the overall health of the planet,

Hughes plans to remedy that#nd expects to find many more zombie fungus species in the forests of Brazil.

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#Is Eating Insects the Answer to Reducing our Food Footprint? Flickr user avlxyz tries an insect at Chiang Mai bazaar Hungry for a grasshopper taco?

For example, Boeing s wide-body commercial jets are riveted now automatically by giant machines that move rapidly and precisely over the skin of the planes.

And even those who used Apple as a launching pad described a gradual evolution, from team player to skeptic,

Roller coasters with Wings On traditional roller coasters your weight is centered over the wheels, but two new coasters#the X Flight at Six Flags Great America and Dollywood s Wild Eagle#have you hanging off the side of the track, dangling in midair.

#Is NASA tracking the Cosmic Shift? Cosmic changes are coming. When it comes to terraforming,

#explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University. This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together

IBEX program scientist at NASA Headquarters. Interstellar space just beyond the edge of the solar system is unexplored mostly territory.

Voyager measurements are relatively local to the spacecraft, however. IBEX is filling in the big picture.#

discovered last year by a NASA Small Explorer satellite IBEX, could be explained by a geometric effect coming up because of approach of the Sun to the boundary between the Local Cloud of interstellar gas

NASA may be controlled a heavily and mostly covert agency, but they ve gotta produce enough public results to justify their funding and existence.

In the report, marking the tenth anniversary of its first Tobacco Atlas, the WLF and the American Cancer Society said

and tobacco is responsible for more than 15 percent of all male deaths and 7 percent of female deaths, the new Tobacco Atlas report found.

#NASA issues call for new space taxis to fly to International Space station NASA hopes to be able to fly its astronauts on commercial carriers by about 2017.

Program managers from NASA said they are looking for at least two U s. firms to design

and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space station. NASA plans to invest $300 million to $500 million in each of the firms selected under new 21-month partnership agreements, Ed Mango,

manager of NASA s Commercial Crew program, said at an industry briefing at the Kennedy space center prior to the release of a solicitation on Tuesday.

The new program aims to build upon previous NASA investments in companies designing commercial passenger spaceships.

With the retirement of the U s. space shuttles last year, Russia has a monopoly on flying crews to the station,

a $100 billion orbiting laboratory for medical, materials science and other research. China, the only other country that has flown people in orbit,

Russia charges NASA about $60 million per person for rides to the station, which flies about 240 miles above Earth

and is staffed by rotating crews of six astronauts from the United states, Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada.

to test fly their spaceships in orbit by the middle of the decade, Mango said. Goals of the demonstration flight include reaching an altitude of at least 230 miles,

Since 2010, NASA has invested a total of $365. 5 million in private companies, including $130. 9 million in Boeing, $125. 6 million in Sierra nevada Corp and $75 million in Space Exploration Technologies,

or Spacex. Boeing is developing a capsule, called the CST-100, which would fly on an Atlas 5 rocket.

Spacex, already selected by NASA to fly cargo to the station, plans to upgrade its Dragon freighter

and Falcon 9 rocket to fly crew as well. Sierra nevada is developing a winged vehicle called the Dream Chaser that resembles a miniature space shuttle.

Like Boeing s spaceship, it too would launch aboard Atlas 5 rockets, which are manufactured and sold by United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed martin partnership.

NASA has $406 million to spend on commercial crew programs for the year that began October 1.

Mango said about 75 percent of that money is available for the next phase of the program

with awards expected in July or August. Because of future funding uncertainties, NASA is asking its potential partners to propose how they would proceed with flat funding of $400 million a year after 2014,

as well as how much they would need to get to a flight demonstration. If we have multiple partners,

we think the most we might be able to give them in the long term might be something along the lines of $400 million per partner,

NASA hopes to be able to fly its astronauts on commercial carriers by about 2017. Photo credit:

as well as a virus that leads to deformed wings which had already been implicated in colony collapse disorder.

Going one step further, adding the names of well-known college dropouts to the list, names like Steve jobs, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bill gates, Buckminster Fuller, Larry Ellison, Howard Hughes

It s the original home of Ball aerospace (one of the first NASA contractors herbal tea pioneer Celestial Seasonings, Storagetek (later acquired by Sun microsystems for $4. 1 billion),

(#oemerc#)Mercure, one of the founding employees of Ball aerospace, who was a physics graduate student at the University of Colorado at the time.

left to form Ball aerospace, which filled those contracts and others. Eventually, the government made Boulder the site of thenational Center for Atmospheric Research

the Carnegie mellon team was working with General motors, Caltech with Northrop grumman, Ohio State with Oshkosh trucking.

He gradually scraped together thirty thousand dollars from Raytheon, Advanced micro devices, and others. No motorcycle company was willing to put its name on the project.

#NASA plans to grow vegetables in space NASA is organizing the Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE) program that will send packs of seed material to the ISS.

Astronaut Don Pettit successfully grew a zucchini, broccoli, and sunflower on the ISS, but NASA is now researching how vegetables may be grown in space for consumption.

NASA is organizing the Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE) program that will send packs of a pellet-like seed material wrapped in Kevlar to the ISS.

When planted under LED lights this material will turn into lettuce. Once grown, the lettuce will be sent back to Earth for analysis to determine

We wouldn t want our astronauts coming down with space food poisoning, would we? And then once the food is deemed safe for consumption,

the astronauts will get treated with a fresh meal. NASA chose lettuce for the experiment

because it s generally ready to eat straight out of the soil. Other vegetableish things like potatoes are only good when cooked,

but NASA hopes to eventually grow other vegetables like radishes, peas, and tomatoes. Growing plants in space also has other

With astronauts being so far from home and confined to tight quarters, the plants they grow could provide therapeutic relief from the stresses they face.

The astronauts may also benefit from the splash of color that plants provide, especially in an environment that consists of mostly whites and grays.

but NASA hopes that this research could give new insight into how crops behave in space.

these cameras are to be mounted to the outside of the International Space station. But their purpose isn t to capture images of space#hey ll be pointed toward the Earth.

and it is the second-largest cooperative international scientific endeavor (ranking behind only the Space station).

A 1973 NASA document summarizing the biological effects of vacuums on mammals gives you 10 seconds of consciousness

and 3d printers cranking out spacecraft parts. Then he went toe-to-toe with Musk in a discussion of evacuated-tube transport.

Musk went back to work on his spacecraft and electric cars; Oster is forging ahead on ET3. In his Rand report of 41 years ago,

Agriculture drones typically come in a fixed wing or quadcopter configuration Today s Ag Industry Drones There are many possible uses for flying drones,

1.)Landcaster Hawkeye Mark III from Precisionhawk (precisionhawk. com) Completely autonomous, fixed-wing system, weighing 3 lbs.

and the company claims is easier to fly than fixed-wing UAVS. Cost is $3, 800.4.)

Last week, freelance journalist Virginia Hughes wrote about a scientific paper that was published in the elite journal Nature in 1995.

Virginia Hughes: Some readers were angry with my post, arguing, for example, that#oescience s self-correcting paradigm works over decades#.

NASA. 30.)) The Great wall of china isn t the only man-made structure visible from space. Depending on your definition of space,

NASA. 31.)) There is no such thing as someone having a#oephotographic#memory#only very good memories.

If you show the child a movie of an astronaut floating in space while you re saying the word#oeweightless,

I can only assume today s technology is hundreds of times more precise than anything we were working with back then. 2007 NASA image of forest fires in California The above photo was infrared taken with thermal imaging sensors on NASA s Ikhana unmanned research

and hops readily contain#oeinsect fragments##eads, thoraxes, and legs#nd even whole insects. I won t tell you about the rat hair limits#)Fig paste can harbor up to 13 insect heads in 100 grams;

At a scientific conference, she struck up a friendship with Jennifer Doudna, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at UC Berkeley.

By now we have heard all about GE s smart jet engines that transmit over one terabyte of sensor data per flight.

Space Based Power stations The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently announced its 25-year plan to build the world s first 1-gigawatt power plant in space.

#Nasa tests growing lettuce in space A plant growth chamber designed to make gardens thrive in weightlessness.

NASA scientists believe they may have found a solution to how to grow vegetables in space.

It could bring an end to astronauts on the space station subsisting largely on a diet of prepackaged dehydrated food.

If shoots emerged there was no sun. In short the space station is a gardener s nightmare. The solution appears to be aveggie flight pillow a tailored environment

which should make it possible for astronauts to grow their own food. We call it Veggie,

said Gioia Massa of the Kennedy space center. It s a plant growth chamber designed to make gardens thrive in weightlessness.

which went up to the International Space station last month. The idea is simple. The veggie pillows are bags of space dirt with slow-release fertiliser.

But astronauts will not be allowed to savour the first crop, Dr Massa explained. First, we have to bring the lettuce home for analysis. Is it safe to eat?

Boeing is expanding rapidly. The aerospace giant now assembles 787 Dreamliners at a rate of three a month at a massive facility adjacent to the Charleston airport,

and over the next three years it plans to hire about 600 more information technology employees, bringing its total number of workers in the region to about 8, 000.

#How NASA scientists plan to farm on Mars Scientist Angelo Vermeulen on a Mars mock-up in Hawaii.

NASA has big plans for Mars in the coming decades, including intentions to blast a fifth rover onto the planet s surface by 2020

NASA-funded team that spent four months last year on the hills of the Mauna loa volcano in Hawaii to study

volcanic soil is similar to that of Mars. Vermeulen says one of the team s main concerns was combating what s known asmenu fatigue in astronauts.

astronaut. While the HI-SEAS team s primary research goal was to compare prepackaged foods

and meals astronauts could make with a limited supply of shelf-stable ingredients, members were encouraged also to devise their own studies on the Mars mock-up.

and, as such, free up time for the astronauts, he says. Vermeulen also experimented with growing sprouts to give the HI-SEAS team a change of pace from shelf food.

He says the mung beans were used in a curry dish consumed by the astronauts, and the alfalfa were added to a sushi recipe.

soil provided by NASA and compared those crops to a control group that used soil from the nearby banks of the Rhine river.

If astronauts are able to continually grow fresh food on Mars through reproduction, it would bode well for them both physically

which protects free speech. 4. Lonely birthdays The government shutdown coincided withâ Yosemite national park s 123rd and NASA's 55th birthday.

A space rock threatens Earth when NASA out? The Asteroid Watch program based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. has ceased activity along with other federally funded agencies.

Fortunately however the Minor planet Centerâ in Cambridge Mass. and the European space agency are still on the watch in case a space rock nears planet Earth. 15.

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Even NASA is considering quinoa for long-duration planetary space flights perhaps as an apology for its Tang years.

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re on the International Space station</a>)much of it could be put to use watering crops freeing up freshwater for drinking.

(unless you're on the International Space station) much of it could be put to use watering crops freeing up freshwater for drinking.

Space psychologists study how astronauts cope with the conditions of spaceflight and the weightless environment in space.

Astronauts'work is very continuous and highly regimented. The actual spaceflight involves unfamiliar physical sensations such as weightlessness and acceleration.

Space psychologists make recommendations about the best way for astronauts to perform physical and mental work as well as rest.

In 2011 NASA's Operation Icebridge discovered a giant crack crossing the ice shelf. The Icebridge expedition tracks yearly changes in the Antarctic ice.

Besides the lengthening of nights and cool evening weather which are great for stargazers autumn truly is aurora season according to NASA.

and the Harvest moon emerged according to NASA. 4. Why fall leaves may fade Climate change may dull the picture most synonymous with autumn fall leaves.

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