What’s the big idea? Current industrialized food systems were optimized for a single goal – growing the maximum amount of food for the least amount of money. But when room and supplies are limited – ...

A NASA L’SPACE backed team has designed a compact, AI-enabled farming system aims to support astronaut nutrition on long- duration missions and beyond. As human spaceflight pushes farther from Earth, ...

Pull up a seat at the astronaut cafe. What's on the menu, you ask? Duckweed salad. Duckweed soup. Duckweed omelettes. A small, protein-packed plant called duckweed may be the ticket to a nutritious ...

image: Duckweed, a tiny freshwater floating plant, is an excellent laboratory model for scientists to discover new strategies for growing hardier and more sustainable crops in an age of climate change ...

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. What’s the big idea? Current industrialized food systems were optimized for a single goal – growing the maximum amount of food for ...