Space Farms Could Mine Minerals From Moon Dirt
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:15:19 -0700
Future manned missions to the moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils, researchers say.
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Building A Creativity Collective: Using The Crowd To Solve Societal Problems
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:35:53 -0700
Recently funded by the National Science Foundation, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, and Yasuaki Sakamoto of Stevens Institute of Technology are conducting research on how well design can be accomplished by a set of individuals quickly assembled online - a cyber crowd. Over the next three years, their research project entitled, "Crowdsourcing Creativity: Experiments in Design," will build an idea ecology ...
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