The Living Lab Comes to Life

From the street, the Living Lab will look just like many other homes in the neighborhood, but when you walk inside you will discover it is intentionally designed to be a model for sustainable, resilient, and efficient residential homebuilding practices. Roughly two years ago I embarked on a journey with my husband David to build…

NASA improves water recovery rate from recycled pee

NASA ScienceCasts: Water Recovery on the Space Station If NASA is ever to achieve human missions to Mars and beyond, astronauts will have to drink recycled fluids as weight and space restrictions mean that transporting fresh water isn’t feasible. It’s why NASA engineers have been developing a system to recover water by recycling astronauts’ breath,…