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For The First Time, DNA Has Been Edited With CRISPR in Space

Posted by Genevieve Klien in biotech/medical, genetics, space | Leave a Comment on For The First Time, DNA Has Been Edited With CRISPR in Space

05.27.
2019

Humans may not be able to burp properly in space, but we can now edit a genome. For the first time, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have used CRISPR-Cas9 to edit the DNA of brewer’s yeast.

The goal wasn’t to create super space yeast. The astronauts were studying how DNA repair mechanisms work in space, so they snipped through strands of the fungus’s genetic code in a number of places to mimic radiation damage.

“The damage actually happens on the space station and the analysis also happens in space,” said Emily Gleason of miniPCR Bio, the company that designed the DNA lab aboard the ISS. “We want to understand if DNA repair methods are different in space than on Earth.”

The Universe as Cosmic Dashboard

Posted by Quinn Sena in quantum physics, space | Leave a Comment on The Universe as Cosmic Dashboard

05.24.
2019

Relational quantum mechanics suggests physics might be a science of perceptions, not observer-independent reality.

By Bernardo Kastrup on May 24, 2019

Asteroid Flying

Posted by Quinn Sena in space | Leave a Comment on Asteroid Flying

05.24.
2019

Get your telescope ready for Saturday night.

An Astounding Amount of Water Has Been Discovered Beneath the Martian North Pole

Posted by Genevieve Klien in space | Leave a Comment on An Astounding Amount of Water Has Been Discovered Beneath the Martian North Pole

05.24.
2019

Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice cap on Mars. This reservoir contains so much ice that, if melted and brought to the surface, it would submerge the entire planet.

“This was a surprise even for us,” Stefano Nerozzi, the lead author of the new paper and a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, told Gizmodo in an email.

A Rocket Built by Students Reached Space for the First Time

Posted by Genevieve Klien in space | Leave a Comment on A Rocket Built by Students Reached Space for the First Time

05.24.
2019

A USC team won the collegiate space race by sending a rocket above the Kármán line, the imaginary boundary that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere.

‘Like trying to build the USA in the middle of the Atlantic’: Elon Musk just dunked on Jeff Bezos’ vision to build floating space colonies

Posted by Montie Adkins in Elon Musk, habitats, space | Leave a Comment on ‘Like trying to build the USA in the middle of the Atlantic’: Elon Musk just dunked on Jeff Bezos’ vision to build floating space colonies

05.24.
2019

I agree with Bezos on this one.

Elon Musk dismissed Jeff Bezos’ plan of housing a trillion people in orbiting ‘O’Neill colonies,’ which resemble gargantuan spinning cylinders.

Huge Amount of Water Ice Is Spotted on Mars (It Could Be Long-Lost Polar Ice Caps)

Posted by Quinn Sena in space | Leave a Comment on Huge Amount of Water Ice Is Spotted on Mars (It Could Be Long-Lost Polar Ice Caps)

05.23.
2019

Researchers believe they’ve spotted the remains of ancient Martian ice caps mingled with layers of sand, all a mile below the Red Planet’s modern north pole.

What’s Really at the Center of the Universe?

Posted by Michael Lance in space | Leave a Comment on What’s Really at the Center of the Universe?

05.23.
2019

What do you think is at the center of the universe?

Newly Found Exoplanet “Could Offer Conditions Friendly to Life”

Posted by Michael Lance in space | Leave a Comment on Newly Found Exoplanet “Could Offer Conditions Friendly to Life”

05.23.
2019

Astronomers think liquid water could flow on its surface.

It’s within its star’s habitable zone.

Space 2.0: Something’s Going to Happen, Something Wonderful

Posted by Genevieve Klien in economics, engineering, space | Leave a Comment on Space 2.0: Something’s Going to Happen, Something Wonderful

05.23.
2019

A review of Rod Pyle’s new book, Space 2.0, a tour de force of the “new space” phenomena packed with photos and details of the amazing people behind it. The book goes beyond Musk, Branson and Bezos and explains the origins of the science and engineering required to build an economy beyond Earth.