SCIENCE

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A team of Japanese engineers really is hoping to turn the moon into a giant solar panel. "It sounds like a tale from a science-fiction novel" says Thair Shaikh in The Independent, but all amazing scientific ideas usually sound like that. Read full article in The Independent. E.T.P. 3'

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NASA also have big plans for the moon in 2015 as they are planning to grow plants on its surface. Why? Because 'if they can thrive, we probably can too'. "Scientists, contractors and students will work together to create a small 1kg “self-contained habitat” containing seeds and germination material to send to the moon. To get there Nasa plans to ‘hitchhike’, delivering the payload via the Moon Express lander, a commercial spacecraft enrolled in the Google Lunar X Prize. Read article in The Independent. E.T.P. 5'

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Have you ever thought how are we going to eat after the Ecopocalypse (nice term by the way). Artists Miriam Simun and Miriam Songster, via Fast Company, introduce us to GhostFood, the no-food food truck that feeds your fears about ecological disaster. "GhostFood reengineers the act of eating by amplifying the olfactory dimensions of each extinct food. The project, says Simun, “imagines how we might continue to taste foods” once their production has been rendered unsustainable by environmental disaster. It does so through a technological appendage, a minimal headgear that extends the senses." Read full article in Fast Company. E.T.P. 5'