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Astronauts Can Drink More Recycled Pee Than Ever, and You Can Still Catch the Plague

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

We commemorate the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, dive into NASA’s groundbreaking Mars habitat simulation and discuss the innovative ​​“stillsuits” designed to recycle astronaut pee and how they could enhance spacewalks. Plus, we discuss the record-breaking Hurricane Beryl and its implications for climate change policies, and a surprising case of the plague in Colorado.  Recommended reading: – One Small Step Back in Time: Relive the Wonder of Apollo 11 – Why Hurricane Beryl Underwent Unprecedented Rapid Intensification Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Elah Feder, Alexa Lim, Madison Goldberg and Anaissa Ruiz Tejada, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. E-mail us at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. Yacold also

0:11.5

partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for

0:16.6

gut health, an investigator-led research program. To learn more about Yachtold, visit yawcult.co.j.p.

0:23.8

That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P.

0:28.3

When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on YacLt.

0:32.5

Happy Monday, listeners.

0:34.2

For Scientific American Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feldman.

0:39.2

Let's get back into the swing of things with a quick science news roundup. Tomorrow marks 55 years since the Apollo 11 mission

0:49.9

launched to take humankind to the surface of the moon for the very first time. Of course,

0:55.3

55 is a nice round number, but 50 is even rounder. And five years ago, Siam put out a whole

1:01.2

bunch of stories and stunning photo essays to celebrate the moon landing. I highly recommend to go

1:06.7

check those out at Scientific American.com. Modern spaceflight is looking just a little less glamorous at the moment,

1:13.5

with NASA astronauts Sunni Williams and Butch Wilmore still stuck on the International Space Station.

1:19.7

Actually, NASA would very much like me to not say that they are stuck.

1:25.0

And in fact, last Wednesday at a press conference, the pair of astronauts

1:28.9

said, absolutely, they are not stuck. It's just that they aren't scheduling a day to come back home

1:35.8

yet, and they were originally supposed to come home a whole month ago. So, in other space exploration

1:43.1

news, a group of NASA volunteers recently got unstuck

1:46.8

from a 1700 square foot habitat in Houston. Now, if you're also from the New York City area

1:52.5

or really any urban metropolis in the U.S., you might be thinking, okay, so they lived in a mansion.

1:59.7

Why did they leave? and why do we care?

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