The first food grown in a floating greenhouse in space was just eaten

BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA The first food grown in a microgravity environment—the only lettuce ever harvested without an atmosphere— was just consumed by NASA astronauts at the International Space Station. This means big things for space agriculture, and for the…

Can we justify space exploration when the Earth is in distress?

BY: ATLAS Bill Nye keeps a Canadian fiver in his wallet. Yes, that Bill Nye. The science guy. The one you—and anyone else who’s spent any time inside a North American classroom since the early ’90s—watched in science class. These…