Indoor living has thrown our circadian clocks out of whack. Ex-NASA space light expert Robert Soler has designed futuristic lights that do a better job mimicking the sun’s full spectrum. His Carlsbad company, Bios Lighting, says their lights are better for human health.
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From fruit flies to Boy Scouts: A brief history of science in space
The formal handover of the Chinese payload to NanoRacks at the Space Life Sciences Lab in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photo credit: NanoRacks.
Small effort, big gains
Clearly, a lot of progress has been made toward making the space lab more analogous to the Earth lab in the past few years, and NanoRacks has played no small part in those improvements. Despite the challenges that still remain for microgravity research, some truly significant work has been accomplished. With just a little more investment, Carruthers believes, much larger gains can be made.
NASA finds ice on the surface of the moon
Definitive evidence that our moon, both cold and dark, has water ice at both of its poles.
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This high-tech LED lighting could grow veggies in space
OSRAM, a high-tech global lighting company, is developing better ways to grow vegetables both on Earth and in outer space. Here’s a peek at their CES offerings.
Why your new heart could be made in space one day
Microgravity is ideal for making a range of materials, but will space manufacture ever be cost effective?
Stargazers share images of the super blood wolf moon
Were you lucky enough to see it?
VocativVideosBillboards Of The Future Might Be Floating In The Night Sky
Forget highway billboards… the future of ads might be floating in SPACE.
Bizarre 4-Star System Forms Planets in a Vertical Disk Orbit
Researchers have discovered a highly unusual vertically-oriented protoplanetary disk orbiting around a four-star system.
Geothermal Heating Could Make Life Possible on the Super Earth Planet at Barnard’s Star
In 2018, scientists announced the discovery of a extrasolar planet orbiting Barnard’s star, an M-type (red dwarf) that is just 6 light years away. Using the Radial Velocity method, the research team responsible for the discovery determined that this exoplanet (Barnard’s Star b) was at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth and experienced average surface temperatures of about −170 °C (−274 °F) – making it both a “Super-Earth” and “ice planet”.
Based on these findings, it was a foregone conclusion that Barnard b would be hostile to life as we know it. But according to new study by a team of researchers from Villanova University and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), it is possible – assuming the planet has a hot iron/nickel core and experiences enhanced geothermal activity – that this giant iceball of a planet could actually support life.
The findings were shared at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomy Society (AAS), which took place from January 6th to 10th in Seattle, Washington. The presentation, titled “X-Ray, UV, Optical Irradiances and Age of Barnard’s Star’s New Super Earth Planet – ‘Can Life Find a Way’ on such a Cold Planet”, was delivered during a press conference on January 10th and concerned findings that appeared in a recent study.