Twelve Bottles of Bordeaux were aged in space for 438 days and 19 hours on the International Space Station.  The experiment was to see how microgravity or weightlessness effects wine as it ages before returning to earth on SpaceX Dragon, The red wine was seen to be further evolved by 2-3 years  that came back from space compared to the ones that stayed on earth for 438 days and 19 hours. According to Christie's the price for such a bottle will sell on earth for about $1million.

A law banning plastic packaging for large numbers of fruits and vegetables  starts today in France. It en

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Isolation, limited resources and harsh environment in Antarctica  is ideal for the kind of conditions faced by  astronauts growing crops in space in environments like Mars. EDEN ISS is a greenhouse regulated remotely from mission control at the German Aerospace Centre in Breman. The cultivation process at this greenhouse  is aeroponic meaning  a soilless system where the crops absorb nutrients from a water mist applied at the roots. The vegetables are grown in vertical racks, giving a total growing area in the greenhouse of 12.5 square metres, with the roots exposed in plant growth trays.Photo credit Esther Horvath 

Jews across the world combine spirituality and charitable lessons. The Can-orah campaign for Chanukah is a menoah made from  donated food cans.  It takes typically 770 cans as a goal to create a great menorah. The message in Chanukah is to fight the darkness of despair with light . Kids and adults spread the light by feeding the hungry. The cans gets erected and participants are happy to see their pile of cans grow. Menorah’s usually get as tall as 5 feet. The food is sent  to warehouses and then donated to families in crisis.

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