Some space-time alone
Want to get away from it all? This week, the European Space Agency said it was looking for 12 volunteer “astronauts” to live inside an isolation tank at a Moscow research institute for 17 months – with only a delayed radio link for contact with the outside world. The agency hopes to simulate what a Mars mission would feel like.
Radical bug zapper
UK hospitals are to start trials of a device that may reduce hospital superbugs to undetectable levels in air and on surfaces. The Air Disinfector discharges highly reactive hydroxyl radicals which rapidly kill microbes, says…
