01 April 2020
Biohybrid can turn CO2 into new products for use on Mars or Earth
... been lost over billions of years, leaving behind a thin, tenuous gas layer that is made up of about 96 percent carbon dioxide (CO2) - a level that is toxic to humans if breathed in directly. Terraforming Mars to make its surface habitable for Earth...
29 May 2019
Comets inspire new way to make breathable oxygen on other planets
...are laden with water and other compounds such as carbon dioxide (CO2), but these giant snowballs are not particularly ... was still a stumbling block as far as CO2 was concerned. Carbon dioxide is one of the main building blocks of a comet, but breaking...
03 November 2021
Astronomers spot the most distant detection of water in a star-forming galaxy
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected water and carbon monoxide (CO2) in a massive galaxy nearly 12.88 billion light years from Earth; this is the most distant detection of ...
July 2018
Using algae to support astronauts on deep space missions
... increase the recovery of human waste products. This includes regenerating human waste such as urine, faeces and carbon dioxide to oxygen, drinking water and food. Major part of the US Regenerative Environmental Control and Life Support System...
February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
... numerous and devastating forest fires. Against this backdrop, the biggest concern has to be the rapid rise in carbon dioxide emissions, which is driving changes to weather patterns and threatening to make the homelands of some of the world’s poorest...
06 March 2019
Growing food from thin air to feed astronauts
... on weather, irrigation or even land; it breaks down water molecules to create hydrogen, mixes it with a sprinkling of nutrients and carbon dioxide plucked from the air and feeds this into microbes to create the protein. The electricity needed...
