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Uncover the latest scientific discoveries coming from inside Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with our podcast, SciVIBE. Produced and hosted by Nick Hennen, you’ll also hear what life is like outside the lab for scientists and researchers who are tackling some of today’s most pressing issues. Tune in for unique and compelling conversations with experts leading the charge towards innovation and discovery. SciVIBE takes you behind the scenes where we are inventing the future. Our scientists are creating new kinds of batteries, making sure the lights stay on in your home, outsmarting cybercriminals, repelling biothreats, and so much more. Listen to stories that melt down otherwise hard to understand scientific concepts and topics and learn the origin of how things came to be from the PNNL scientists behind the work. We’re dedicated to sharing the excitement of discovery. Please share and subscribe.
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Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
A Little Piece of Washington State Will Blast Into Space This Week
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Tuesday Jul 12, 2022
Host Nick Hennen sits down with Pacific Northwest National Lab’s Ryan McClure. Ryan is involved in a NASA-funded project with PNNL to blast soil laden with bacteria to the International Space Station.
The bacteria-infused soil is from Prosser, Wash. Researchers like McClure and Janet Jansson, a laboratory fellow at PNNL and the leader of the study, will look at what the bacteria do in a microgravity environment to learn more about how soil microbial communities function in space. That’s the intelligence scientists need to grow food in space or on another celestial body.
If you’d like to follow the mission’s progress and launch, you can do so here: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/launch/spacex.html or https://www.nasa.gov/spacex.