January 2023
Producing food in space
.... Although it requires about 50 kWh of energy to produce 1 kg of Solein, almost all of this energy is spent on splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen via electrolysis. This is still 10 times more efficient when compared to plants and any spacecraft...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... human life activity in a confined space of limited size under conditions of atmospheric regeneration and reproduction of water and oxygen from end products of the vital activity was confirmed. In 1970, a unique medical and technical ground-based...
02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
...a star's ultraviolet (UV) light splits apart carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules, freeing some of the oxygen atoms to form into O2, the kind of oxygen present in Earth's atmosphere. Because this process also produces significant and potentially detectable...
07 March 2016
Researchers show how water content in protoplanetary discs can affect planet formation
...time as a typical lifetime of protoplanetary disc, in order to attract a gaseous envelope. Past studies have focused on the abundances of oxygen and carbon in hot Jupiters to determine the location in the disc where the planet accreted, however these...
06 June 2016
Galaxies guilty of 'wasting' precious planet building material
... Telescope, the study shows that more iron, carbon and oxygen atoms exist in the near-invisible reservoir of gas that ...topping over one million degrees Kelvin, reduce the fraction of the oxygen that is five times ionized, which is the ion observed ...
04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
.... One of the fundamental ingredients of life as we know it are amino acids; a simple organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, that build on one another to form proteins. To start the building process though, amino acids...
