“Be Prepared!” cries the motto of several organizations. It could also be the motto of everyone connected with this study: “Extraterrestrial regolith is hemostatic and potentially suitable for hemorrhage control in space,” Nabil Ali-Mohamad, Ting-Hsuan Wang, Lih Jiin Juang, Nuoya Peng, Massimo F. Cau, Kevin Cannon, and Christian J. Kastrup, Research and Practice in Thrombosis […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Space politics — The UK is successfully playing catch-up with the US in boosting politicians who speak knowingly of the vast, mostly empty depths of the universe.The UK’s new space minister, Andrew Griffith – his official title is minister […]
How does one catch a rock that plummets to earth from outer space? Scott Sandford, a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, is seen in the photo below (he is at the left) with the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule immediately after it landed in Utah on September 24, 2023. This was the first sample ever […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Bulgarian yogurt in space — “Can Bulgarian yogurt enhance astronauts’ performance during the Mars missions?” ask Izabela Shopova, Diana Bogueva, Maria Yotova and Svetla Danova in their study of that name published in the Journal of Ethnic Foods.The […]