Chinese volunteers live in Lunar Palace 1 closed environment for 370 days

Volunteer students at Beihang University have reportedly lived in the Lunar Palace 1 biosphere environment for 370 days. Media outlets have reported that two groups of students took turns living in the biosphere over the course of 370 days, and required minimal supplies from the outside. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-03-chinese-volunteers-lunar-palace-environment.html…

Crew of mock lunar ‘biosphere’ grew food and made oxygen for 200 days

The inhabitants of China’s Lunar Palace biosphere lived on recycled oxygen and water, and grew their own food for a record-setting 200 days without outside intervention Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2268836-crew-of-mock-lunar-biosphere-grew-food-and-made-oxygen-for-200-days/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

It’s Time for the Movie Studios to Step In To Save the Movie Theaters

M.G. Siegler, former reporter at TechCrunch and now a VC at Google Ventures, writes: […] It seems inevitable at this point that there’s going to need to be a new path forward. And that path may very well be one that looks similar to a path forged at the beginning of the business. That is, studios owning theaters. People will remember…

Nazi wreck may hold looted treasures from Russian palace’s ‘Amber Room’

The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II has been found by divers, — and the crates on board the submerged vessel could hold a prize treasure: the precious furnishings of the lost 18th century Amber Room, which German soldiers looted from a Russian royal palace. Source: https://www.livescience.com/amber-room-nazi-wreck-poland.html

Watch cells sniff their way around the maze from Hampton Court Palace

Cells can navigate artificial mazes by generating chemical gradients to predict the best route, a finding that may explain how they migrate through the body Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2253161-watch-cells-sniff-their-way-around-the-maze-from-hampton-court-palace/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Ready, set, explore Earth from home

We’re at home. How about you? But we just discovered these virtual tours, galleries and live webcams from around the world, which we wanted to share. Stay home, and have some virtual fun … Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/ready-set-explore-earth-from-home…