/macdonald/taxonomy/term/835/all en /macdonald/channels/news/mcgill-teams-participate-deep-space-food-challenge-345605 <p>On January 17, two 黑料不打烊 teams, <strong>InSpira Photobioreactor and the Cricket Rearing, Collection, and Transformation System (CRCTS) </strong>competing under the 黑料不打烊 Advanced Bio-Regenerative Toolkit for Long Excursion Trips (MARTLET) umbrella, presented their prototypes to the NASA/CSA Deep Space Food Challenge鈥檚 jury.</p> <p><a href="https://reporter.mcgill.ca/mcgill-teams-put-prototypes-through-their-paces-in-deep-space-food-challenge/">Read</a> the story in the <i>黑料不打烊 Reporter</i>.</p> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:24:13 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 1164957 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/mcgill-martlet-teams-take-home-nasa-and-csa-deep-space-food-challenge-prize-334968 <p>NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have named the winners of the first Deep Space<a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-111521a-nasa-deep-space-food-challenge.html" target="_blank"> </a>Food Challenge, an international contest that sought novel food technologies for future astronaut missions, as well as for use in resource-scarce regions on Earth.</p> <p>Celebrity chefs Martha Stewart and Lynn Crawford joined former astronauts Scott Kelly and Chris Hadfield in making the announcements in a video aired by NASA on its television channel on November 15th.</p> Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:51:40 +0000 valerie.mcleod@mcgill.ca 730189 at /macdonald /macdonald/channels/news/nearing-limits-life-earth-257977 <h3>Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars</h3> <p>Natural Resource Sciences professor Lyle Whyte and postdoctoral fellow Jackie Goordial talk about their research which suggests that it is unlikely that it is unlikely that there is any microbial life to be found on Mars.</p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:32:42 +0000 hcrphoto.macdonald@mcgill.ca 52037 at /macdonald