On a remote mountain in Hawaii, there's a fake planet Mars. Six volunteers are secluded in an imitation Mars habitat where they will work as imitation astronauts for one very real year. The goal: to help NASA understand what life might be like on the red planet—and plan for the day when the dress rehearsals are over, and we blast off for real. Host Lynn Levy has been chronicling this experiment from the moment the crew set foot in their habitat, communicating with them through audio diaries ...
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On today’s episode: Humans don’t produce pheromones, but…do they? Can lab grown coffee save the environment? Scientists have found a way to trace the lineage of your cells IN your body. The first ever pig-to-human kidney transplant happened this year! All that and more today on All Around Science.
LINKS:- [ARTICLE] Misplaced trust: When trust in science fosters belief in pseudoscience and the benefits of critical evaluation
- [ARTICLE] Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive
- [ARTICLE] Lab-grown coffee cuts out the beans and deforestation
- [ARTICLE] Cellular lineage: Researchers create 'Ancestry.com' for our bodies
- [ARTICLE] In a major scientific advance, a pig kidney is successfully transplanted into a human
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