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...water on the planet, it will be very big news, and not merely because of what it means for the possibility of Martian life. Martian water, once purified, ought to be as useful for drinking and bathing as earthly water. What's more, since water is merely hydrogen and oxygen and since it's hydrogen that provides the propulsive fire in some liquid-fuel engines and oxygen that keeps those flames burning, breaking the two elements apart in a Mars-based fuel distillery could provide everything necessary to refill the tanks of a spacecraft once it arrives...
...there be much research on the effects of long-term spaceflight on human health--not with the small crews and relatively short stays the station can accommodate. Its current crew does little with its time but maintain hardware and fix problems, the latest being a worrisome oxygen leak that has so far bled away 4% of the station's air since it sprang in late December...
Another good reason to go is the one disdained by straight-to-Mars boosters: learning how to live off the land--manufacturing some of what we need from soil that contains oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium and titanium, plus a dusting of helium, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon deposited by solar winds...
...functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine to take pictures of the subject's brain. The fMRI machine records blood flow in the brain. It is based in part on a simple principle: brain cells that are active use more blood than quiescent brain parts in order to collect the oxygen they need to do their job. I had already invited Lucy Brown, a neuroscientist at the Albert Einstein school, to interpret the scanning results. But I had one concern about the design of the experiment. I knew that lovers have a hard time not thinking about their beloved...
Sara Nelson is the consummate publishing insider. She has covered books as editor, reviewer, reporter and columnist for such media outlets as Glamour, the New York Times, Self, the Wall Street Journal, Oxygen and the New York Observer. Nelson set out on a mission to read 52 books in 52 weeks and write about her experience. The result is So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading (Putnam; 242 pages). TIME spoke with Nelson...