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An award-winning playwright, he has contributed to Charged and iQ magazine and is the author of the website <em>Tales of Future Past</em>.</p> </div> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="38836"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38836"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/space/"> — Space </a> <h1 class="h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/astronauts-first-space-harvest-veggie-lettuce/38836/">Astronauts chow down on space harvest for the first time</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - August 10, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/astronauts-first-space-harvest-veggie-lettuce/38836/pictures"> 8 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/astronauts-first-space-harvest-veggie-lettuce/38836/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/veggies-harvest@2x.jpg" alt="Lettuce grown on the International Space Station being prepared for lunch"> </a> </div> <p>The International Space Station (ISS) was the scene of an historic lunch this week with the crew members of Expedition 44 dining on the first meal harvested in space. The dish, which consisted on leaves of "Outredgeous" red romaine lettuce grown in NASA's "<a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/veggie/31613/">Veggie</a>" zero-gravity greenhouse, is part of the space agency's effort to find ways to feed tomorrow's deep-space travelers.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/astronauts-first-space-harvest-veggie-lettuce/38836/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="38693"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38693"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/environment/"> — Environment </a> <h1 class="h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/gene-modification-rice-methane/38693/">Addition of a single gene makes rice more environmentally friendly</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - August 9, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/gene-modification-rice-methane/38693/pictures"> 2 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/gene-modification-rice-methane/38693/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/greenhouse-rice@2x.jpeg" alt="SUSIBA2 (right) compared with a control strain"> </a> </div> <p>The world's growing population faces a constant string of tradeoffs. On the one hand, we need more rice to feed ourselves. On the other hand, control of greenhouse gases is a major priority and rice growing generates a lot of methane. It seems like a Catch 22, but a team led by the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has come up with a genetically engineered strain of rice that not only produces almost no methane, but also more grains.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/gene-modification-rice-methane/38693/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="38818"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38818"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/space/"> — Space </a> <h1 class="h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-marks-curiosity-third-anniversary-online-simulator/38818/">NASA marks Curiosity's third anniversary with new interactive online tools</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - August 8, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-marks-curiosity-third-anniversary-online-simulator/38818/pictures"> 6 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-marks-curiosity-third-anniversary-online-simulator/38818/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/curiosity-tools@2x.JPG" alt="Experience Curiosity allows the user to control Curiosity's arm"> </a> </div> <p>The Curiosity rover has now been on Mars for <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/curiosity-mars-landing/23593/">three years</a>, and to mark the occasion, NASA has released two new tools designed to both educate the public and help scientists select future landing sites. The tools allow visitors to learn more about Curiosity and its mission and explore the Martian surface by climbing aboard Curiosity for a virtual tour.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-marks-curiosity-third-anniversary-online-simulator/38818/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="38776"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38776"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/space/"> — Space </a> <h1 class="h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/lunar-icecube-search-moon-water/38776/">Diminutive Lunar IceCube satellite to scan Moon for water and other resources</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - August 6, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/lunar-icecube-search-moon-water/38776/pictures"> 4 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/lunar-icecube-search-moon-water/38776/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/lunar-icecube@2x.jpg" alt="The Lunar IceCube is a rectangular satellite made up of six standard CubeSat units, each measuring 10 cm (4 in) on a side"> </a> </div> <p>Recently, NASA has been looking at <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-cubesats-interplanetary/37648/">CubeSats</a> as a way of carrying out economical deep space missions. One of the first of these may be shoebox-sized satellite called the Lunar IceCube, which is designed to look for water ice and other resources on the Moon. Tentatively aimed to launch on the first <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/orion-spacecraft/">Orion</a> mission scheduled to fly by 2018, it is intended to not only uncover materials for future deep-space missions and lunar colonization, but also as a technology demonstrator for a new class of interplanetary probes.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/lunar-icecube-search-moon-water/38776/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="38782"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38782"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/aircraft/"> — Aircraft </a> <h1 class="h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/airbus-patent-mach-4-supersonic-jet/38782/">Airbus patents design for Mach 4-plus supersonic jet</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - August 4, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/airbus-patent-mach-4-supersonic-jet/38782/pictures"> 4 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/airbus-patent-mach-4-supersonic-jet/38782/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/airbus-supersonic@2x.jpg" alt="The Airbus supersonic aircraft is designed to reach speeds of up to Mach 4.5"> </a> </div> <p>If there's one area where the 21st century has gone backwards technologically, it's in supersonic passenger flight. With the grounding of the Concorde fleets in 2003, flying faster than the speed of sound reverted to a military monopoly, but that hasn't kept engineers from trying for <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/supersonic-passenger-aircraft-revival/32600/">a revival</a>. Now Airbus' Marco Prampolini and Yohann Coraboeuf have been granted a US patent for an "ultra-rapid air vehicle" designed to fly at 20 km (12.4 mi) higher than conventional aircraft and over four times the speed of sound – twice the speed of Concorde.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/airbus-patent-mach-4-supersonic-jet/38782/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="38691"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38691"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/science/"> — Science </a> <h1 class="h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/worlds-first-white-laser-demonstrated/38691/">World's first white laser demonstrated</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - August 4, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/worlds-first-white-laser-demonstrated/38691/pictures"> 3 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/worlds-first-white-laser-demonstrated/38691/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/white-laser@2x.jpg" alt="This schematic illustrates the novel nanosheet with three parallel segments created by the researchers, each supporting laser action in one of three elementary colors"> </a> </div> <p>Incandescent bulbs, LEDs, and CFLs may soon have to budge up because a new lighting technology is in town – white lasers. Using nanotechnology to create a bespoke semiconducting material, a team of scientists at Arizona State University has developed a laser that can produce white light that is brighter and more efficient than LEDs.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/worlds-first-white-laser-demonstrated/38691/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="38438"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38438"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/robotics/"> — Robotics </a> <h1 class="h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/ge-atomic-swimmer-robot-nuclear-reactor-inspector/38438/">GE atomic swimmer robot keeps tabs on nuclear reactors</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - August 3, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/ge-atomic-swimmer-robot-nuclear-reactor-inspector/38438/pictures"> 2 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/ge-atomic-swimmer-robot-nuclear-reactor-inspector/38438/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/ge-stinger@2x.png" alt="The Stinger is designed to inspect nuclear reactors without the need of a human team inside the containment vessel"> </a> </div> <p>One truism of nuclear reactors is that you really don't want to be next to one. Unfortunately, reactor cores need to be inspected and maintained, which means teams of workers going inside the containment vessel. It's an operation that's not only hazardous, but expensive and time consuming. In an effort to make such inspections safer, cheaper, and faster, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has developed the Stinger; a free-swimming, remote-controlled robot that replaces humans for cleaning and inspecting reactor vessels.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/ge-atomic-swimmer-robot-nuclear-reactor-inspector/38438/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="38740"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38740"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/health/"> — Health and Wellbeing </a> <h1 class="h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/ebola-vaccine-100-percent-effective-field-trials/38740/">Ebola vaccine shown to be 100 percent effective in field trials</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - August 3, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/ebola-vaccine-100-percent-effective-field-trials/38740/pictures"> 12 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/ebola-vaccine-100-percent-effective-field-trials/38740/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/ebola-vaccine@2x.jpg" alt="Mamadouba Conté, working in the Ebola lab at Donka Hospital"> </a> </div> <p><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/needle-free-ebola-vaccine-four-month/34757/"></a>Ebola is one of the most frightening viruses of modern times and the recent outbreak in West Africa sparked a worldwide effort to contain it. Though it is far from under control in much of the region, there is a glimmer of hope as the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that in trials, a vaccine called VSV-EBOV has proven to be 100 percent effective in protecting individuals.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/ebola-vaccine-100-percent-effective-field-trials/38740/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="38735"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38735"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/military/"> — Military </a> <h1 class="h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/f-35b-declared-operational/38735/">F-35B Lightning II declared operational</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - July 31, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/f-35b-declared-operational/38735/pictures"> 2 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/f-35b-declared-operational/38735/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/f-35b-operational@2x.JPG" alt="Two F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters complete vertical landings aboard the USS Wasp (LHD-1) during the opening day of the first session of operational testing"> </a> </div> <p> The US Marine Corps has declared the <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/f-35b-first-night-sea-vertical-landing/28785/">F-35B Lightning II</a> operational. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121, based in Yuma, Arizona, which has ten of VSTOL multi-role fighters, was today officially cleared for worldwide deployment after a five-day Operational Readiness Inspection.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/f-35b-declared-operational/38735/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </article> <article class="article-summary article-summary--None" data-article="38710"> <div class="article-top" data-article="38710"> <a class="label" href="/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/space/"> — Space </a> <h1 class="h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/spitzer-space-telescope-nearest-rocky-planet/38710/">Spitzer Space Telescope confirms nearest rocky planet</a></h1> <div class="clearfix"> <span class="pull-left"> By <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/" rel="author">David Szondy</a> - July 31, 2015 </span> <a class="picture-count" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/spitzer-space-telescope-nearest-rocky-planet/38710/pictures"> 3 Pictures </a> </div> </div> <div class="inline-item"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/spitzer-space-telescope-nearest-rocky-planet/38710/"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/spitzer-planet@2x.jpg" alt="Artist's concept of HD 219134b"> </a> </div> <p>NASA's <a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/nasa-spitzer-microlensing-planet-discovery/37012/">Spitzer Space Telescope</a> has confirmed the presence of the closest rocky planet to the Solar System. Orbiting a visible main-sequence star 21 light years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia, HD 219134b is larger than Earth and is uninhabitable.</p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/spitzer-space-telescope-nearest-rocky-planet/38710/" class="readmore_link">Read More</a> </article> <div class="pagination"> <span>1</span> <a rel="next" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/2/">2</a> <a rel="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/3/">3</a> <a rel="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/4/">4</a> <a rel="" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/5/">5</a> <a rel="next" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150811063915/http://www.gizmag.com/author/david-szondy/2/">Next »</a> </div> </div> <div class="column-tertiary"> <ul 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