Have you heard of the tardigrade?Colloquially known as “cute water bears,” tardigrade are an eight-legged segmented micro-animal that also happen to be extremophiles. This means that they can survive in extreme environments—in the vacuum of space, desiccation, high heat, radiation, you-name-it.
For Scientific Controversies: To Mars!, Janna Levin sat down with Dr. Christopher Mason, a pioneer in aerospace medicine and genetics, and Professor Rana Adhikari, an experimental physicist and critical participant in the Nobel Prize and Breakthrough Prize-winning LIGO project. Together, they discuss space exploration, biotechnology, and the ethics of designing humans for life off planet Earth.
This project is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, bridging the two cultures of science and the arts.
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