..Scientists work to colonize space..

“To put a human colony of four or five scientists on the moon for any extended period of time, it’s necessary to figure out how to produce the oxygen and water and propellant that might be required for simple life support, largely because it’s too darned expensive to get it all the way from Earth and stockpile it there,” says Dale Boucher, director of research and development at the Sudbury-based Northern Centre for Advanced Technology…

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..Big new reservoir of water ice suspected under Mars..

Water ice was expected in the polar caps, since they represent the largest known reservoirs of water on Mars. Estimates suggest that if they melted, they would cover the planet in a layer of water up to 33 metres deep.

But as it scanned the region around the south pole, MARSIS also turned up an unexpected ice source. It lies near the southern polar cap and is underneath a region of Martian surface that shows no visible signs of ice. The radar signals reveal what appear to be relatively thin layers of underground water ice – layers that may contain water of a equivalent to half of that locked up in the entire southern polar cap.

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swallowable surgical robots

from The Washington Post Robots May Allow Surgery in Space Small robots designed by University of Nebraska researchers may allow doctors on Earth to help perform surgery on patients in space. The tiny, wheeled robots, which are about 3 inches tall and as wide as a lipstick case, can be slipped into small incisions and […]

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Google partners with NASA

man, those guys at Google don’t pause for breath, do they? Google confirms Ames plan / Search engine plans offices, partnership with space agency Google Inc. confirmed Wednesday that it will build up to 1 million square feet of offices at NASA Ames Research Center and collaborate with the space agency on research surrounding topics […]

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