Category: Emerging Tech

Lab-Grown burger from Memphis Meats Memphis Meats The word meat has new meaning. Where it once referred exclusively to animal flesh harvested from a carcass, today a lab-grown variety is calling that definition into question. A handful of enterprising startups have raised and invested hundreds of millions of dollars into the concept of lab-grown meats, banking on breakthroughs in biotech… Continue reading "A Brief Explainer About Lab-Grown Meat, a New Food Revolution"

Could technology first used by NASA to grow plants on other planets also help farmers improve crop yield here on Earth? According to researchers at the U.K.’s John Innes Center and Australia’s University of Queensland the answer is “affirmative.” They are employing some of the speed breeding techniques pioneered by the U.S. aerospace program to breed more disease resistant, climate… Continue reading "How NASA’s ‘Space Wheat’ is Helping Earthbound Farmers Grow Crops"

After years of consideration, NASA has finally chosen the all-important landing site for its Mars 2020 rover. The location is known as Jezero Crater, and on several occasions in the dim and distant past water is believed to have flowed into it before draining away. As a result, scientists believe that “microbial life could have lived in Jezero during one… Continue reading "NASA Selects the All-important Landing Site for Its Mars 2020 Mission"

A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have discovered a strange galaxy next door to the Milky Way. The dwarf galaxy, named Antlia 2, is dark and dim and gives out much less light than expected, hence being described as “ghostly.” Dwarf galaxies were some of the earliest galaxies to form after the big bang, and because they… Continue reading "Ghostly Galaxy Discovered Lurking on the Edge of the Milky Way"

Trevor Mogg Every summer, thousands of hikers head to Mount Fuji to embark on what for many will be the most ambitious climb of their lives. At 3,776 meters, Mount Fuji is Japan’s highest mountain, with outdoor enthusiasts attracted by its distinctive volcanic-cone shape and its special place in the nation’s culture. People come from across the country and far… Continue reading "Japan to Use Drones for Search-and-rescue Missions on Mount Fuji"