A Martian diet might aid your health on Earth (but there are probably better interventions you should try first)
Tag - astrobiology
Alun Salt
Is Red the Signature of Life-Bearing Planets?
What colours should we be looking for from exoplanets if they hold life? New research from Japan suggests they could be more similar to Earth than previously thought.
How to grow plants 400km above the ground
Quora is a site for posting questions to the internet. Sometimes those questions get answer. For example Robert Frost, who has trained astronauts for the International Space Station, has answered the question: How are...
Lichens, thale cress, tobacco, the great survivors…
It is often said that cockroaches are one of the hardiest of animals, allegedly able to withstand a nuclear holocaust. Well, serious contenders amongst the plant-like critters are lichens, thale cress and tobacco...
Nigel Chaffey
Black is the new… er… green?
What colour are plants? No, not a stupid question, but I bet you were tempted to answer ‘green’? Which is fair enough; chlorophyll is the major pigment in plants and consequently they do tend to appear green. But! This...
