How Long Humans Can Live in Space—and What Happens if We Stay Too Long
How long can humans live in space? We don’t know the answer to that. But every crew that resides on the International Space Station provides us information that we use to adjust our protocols and extends that period of time. The longest contiguous amount of time a human has spent in space is 437 days.…
“Nightmarish” Cricket That Eats Anything Is Now Invading the US
A cricket with a voracious appetite for anything — including members of its own species — is now spreading across the eastern United States with no end to the invasion in sight. The invader, known as the greenhouse camel cricket (Diestrammena asynamora), is described in the latest issue of the journal PeerJ. “The good news…
How The Zebra Got Its Stripes, With Alan Turing
Where do a zebra’s stripes, a leopard’s spots and our fingers come from? The key was found years ago – by the man who cracked the Enigma code. Photo Credit: tambako via flickr | CC BY-ND 2.0 In 1952 a mathematician published a set of equations that tried to explain the patterns we see in…
