Monday 31 October 2016

Antarctica's Ross Sea declared as world’s largest Marine Protected Area

  • The world’s largest marine protected area (MPA) has been established in Antarctica’s Ross Sea.
  • A 1.55 million km area of the Ross Sea will have special protection from human activities such as commercial fishing.

Wednesday 12 October 2016

Electroactive Bandage

  • The NASA has developed a new high-tech electroactive bandage that uses electricity to significantly promote healing of injured wounds. 
  • The high-tech bandage creates an electric charge to promote the healing process of wounds in space especially in conditions of non-Earth gravity. Need In conditions of non-Earth gravity, human blood displays quite different behaviour from that on Earth.